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Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise The Future of Trade Unions in Britain

2005réf. 4786Routledge 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardcover xviii 268 pages NOT ex-library. A mildly used clean and bright copy with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps firmly bound. Published without a dust jacket. -- This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics organization theory history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions' prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as: - the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990s; - the way in which unions' own structures inhibit their revitalization; - the apparent failure of unions to thrive in the benign times since 1997; - the extent to which use of the internet will permit unions to break with their tradition of organizing by occupation or industry; - the prospects for real social partnership at national level; - the way in which high performance workplaces in the US give voice to workers without unions. Written by some of the leading scholars in the area this book gives an insight into union prospects for the future and has important policy implications for all parties concerned with industrial relations unions employers and governments. -- Contents: Future of British Unions: Introduction & Conclusions; Markets Firms & Unions: Historical-Institutionalist Perspective on the Future of Unions in Britain; Circling the Wagons: Endogeneity in Union Decline Ecology; Union Organization; Representation; Social Movement Theory & Union Revitalization in Britain; Trade Unions: Resurgence or Perdition An Economic Analysis Classical & Institutional Economists Marx & the Webbs; Impact of Unions; Hereafter: Resurgence or Perdition; Summary & Conclusions; Stocks Flows & Steady State Union Membership; Union Responses to Public-Private Partnerships in the NHS; Unions & Performance Related Pay: What Chance of a Procedural Role; From the Webbs to the Web: Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes Union Presence in Cyberspace; Innovative Uses of the Internet; Open Source Union Designs; Public Policy Face of Trade Unionism Visionary Statements; Political Role; Limitations of Voluntarism; Future; Follow the Leader: Are British Trade Unions Tracking the US Decline American Trade Union Organizing Trends; British Organizing Trends; Comparisons of British & American Union Wage Costs & Public Policy Penalties; Union Political Contributions; Prospects for an American or UK Union Resurgence; Trade Unions in Germany: On the Road to Perdition; Appendix: Trade Union Numbers Membership & Density; Bibliography; Index Routledge hardcover

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