Union Voices : : Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing / / Jane Holgate, Melanie Simms, Edmund Heery.
In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical...
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Simms, Melanie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Union Voices : Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing / Jane Holgate, Melanie Simms, Edmund Heery. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (208 p.) : 6 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Managing Decline to Organizing for the Future -- 2. The TUC Approach to Developing a New Organizing Culture -- 3. The Spread of Organizing Activity to Individual Unions -- 4. Union Organizers and Their Stories -- 5. Organizing Campaigns -- 6. Evaluating Organizing -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing means in the UK, how it emerged, and what its impact has been.Although the supportive legislation of the New Labour government led to considerable optimism in the late 1990s about the prospects for renewal, Simms, Holgate, and Heery argue that despite considerable evidence of investment, new practices, and innovation, UK unions have largely failed to see any significant change in their membership and influence. The authors argue that this is because of the wider context within which organizing activity takes place and also reflects the fundamental tensions within these initiatives. Even without evidence of any significant growth in labor influence across UK society more broadly, organizing campaigns have given many of the participants an opportunity to grow and flourish. The book presents their experiences and uses them to show how their personal commitment to organizing and trade unionism can sometimes be undermined by the tensions and tactics used during campaigns. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Labor unions Organizing Great Britain. Labor History. Political Science & Political History. Sociology & Social Science. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Heery, Edmund, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Holgate, Jane, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801451201 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801466021 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801466021 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801466021/original |
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