Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?

ISBN-13: 9780415284110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

Sue Fernie; David Metcalf

Opis

Can private sector unions survive in Great Britain?
How can unions respond to the challenges posted by performace-related pay, public-private partnerships and the internet?
What lessons can be learned from trade unions' experience in Germany and the US?
"Trade Unions: Resurgence or Decline?" is the third book in the innovative "Trade Unions in Britain" series. Featuring substantial and original research, this book takes a hard disciplinary approach--economics, organizational theory, history and social psychology--to offer readers a comprehensive analysis of unions' prospects in the new millenium. Case studies deal with such topical issues such as unions and the gender pay gap, the private finance initiative, performance-related pay and the unions' use of the internet.
Written by many of the leading scholars on British unions, this book highlights union prospects--survival or resurgence?--and has important policy implications for all parties to industrial relations: unions, employers and government.

Spis treści

Introduction 2. Markets, Firms, and Unions: A Historical-Institutionalist Perspective on the Future of Unions in Britain 3. Circling the Wagons; Endogeneity in Union Decline 4. Social Movement Theory and Union Revitalization in Britain 5. British Unions: Resurgence or Perdition? 6. Union Responses to Public-Private Partnerships in the National Health Service 7. Unions and Performance-Related Pay: What Chance of a Procedural Justice Role? 8. From the Webbs to the Web: The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes 9. The Public Policy Face of Trade Unionism 10. Follow the Leader: Are British Trade Unions Tracking the US Decline? 11. Trade Unions in Germany: On the Road to Perdition?