This text, which includes contributions from international scholars in the field, discusses the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the 21st century. Questions discussed include: What will unions look like in the years to come? Which kind o…
Focusing on the role and functions of trade unions, this collection of essays by a team of international scholars looks to the future and explores their broader political and social remits and responsibilities.
Focusing on the role and functions of trade unions, this collection of essays by a team of international scholars looks to the future and explores their broader political and social remits and responsibilities.
This thesis seeks to contribute to the understanding of European labor organization by focusing on two guiding questions: (1) How can a framework integrating (competing) logics explain the current form of European trade union organization? and (2) Which critical junctures explai…
A dramatic wave of unionizing in the museum world over the past year has sparked new conversations about labor and collective organizing throughout the cultural sector. Yet while those at the forefront of these conversations hope to leverage this moment into a cohesive movement,…
This study investigates the consequences of the growth in mergers amongst trade unions. It is conventional wisdom that unions which engage in mergers, pooling their resources and releasing economies of scale, become more powerful and serve their members' more efficiently. The no…
Set against a background of technological change, national bargaining and union merger, this thesis considers the impact of a changing structural, economic and political climate on the resilience of national pay bargaining within general print, a little documented but important …
This book describes the origins and birth of Solidarity in 1980, its rebirth in 1989, and the formation of a Solidarity government.
Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years…
Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While empirical research on the effects of unions on various labor market outcomes proliferated in the 1970s and 80s, theoretical understanding of the behavior of unions remains at its ear…