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Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004
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Heery, Edmund and Simms, Melanie (2011) Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004. Labor History, Vol.52 (No.1). pp. 23-47. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2011.545201 ISSN 0023-656X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2011.545201
Abstract
The Employment Relations Act 1999 seemingly presented UK unions with an opportunity to reverse their long-term decline in membership. This article examines union responses to this change and uses original survey evidence to investigate union organizing campaigns. It explores the targeting, resourcing, objectives, methods and employer responses to union organizing activity in the UK between 1998 and 2004. The evidence indicates a complex pattern, in which experimentation with new methods and organizing to increase the diversity of union membership are balanced by conservatism in the selection of targets and the allocation of only modest resources to the task of union renewal.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Labor History | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0023-656X | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.52 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 23-47 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0023656X.2011.545201 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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