Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence

ISBN-13: 9780745344027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Jane Holgate

Opis

An authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategy

Spis treści

1. Looking to the past to understand the present2. Lets talk about social power3. Harnessing power in the late 19th century / early 20th century gig economy4. Understanding and using levers of power in the latter half of the 20th century5. Structural change and the weakening of the power of workers6. Union responses to decline and loss of power7. Organising in theory: recruitment in practice?8. Leadership, strategic choice, and union power in the turn to organising9. Winning power is possible

O autorze

Jane Holgate is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA 'mother of chapel', Unison branch chair and regional council delegate, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions, including the GMB, TGWU, CWU, Bectu, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress.