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Unions affect us all, no matter where we live and work. This book tells us all about them, their past and present About how they began, Their Turbulent years when joining one could cost you your life, their legendary leader like Jim Larkin and the…

Analysis, based on a literature survey, of the impact of social stratification on patterns of trade unionization, particularly among nonmanual workers, in the UK and other western countries - covers the relationship between social class and trade…

This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

This book is intended as a brief incursion into the theoretical and practical implementation of trade unions' behavior and government action in the contemporary situation. It is more concerned with raising questions than with answering them but…

What are the key features of Unionized Labour Markets? This important book analyses the nature of contracts between unions and management, and evaluates the result for wages, employment, and productivity. It synthesizes the major strands of research…

The Rise of Irish Trade Unions which covers the story of Irish Trade Unionism, north and south, to the present day. To his meticulously researched study, first published in 1972, Andrew Boyd has added a chapter bringing the history of Irish Unions up…

Michael Goldfield challenges standard explanations for union decline, arguing that the major causes are to be found in the changing relations between classes. Goldfield combines innovative use of National Labor Relations Board certification election…

Trade Unions in Renewal brings together a series of studies of union renewal from five different countries - the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. Although unions in the five countries have all been influenced by…

Working for justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive ‘L.A. Model’ of union and worker centre organising. The organised labour movement in Los…

During the 1980s, British trade unionism confronted its greatest challenge, and suffered its greatest reverses, since the inter-war period. After a decade of rapid growth, the unions experienced a steep decline in membership, and virtual…

Sex Worker Union Organising is the first study of the emerging phenomenon of sex workers- prostitutes, exotic dancers such as lap dancers, porn models and actresses, and sex chatline workers – asserting that their economic activities are work and…

When Alexander Bowman was elected to Belfast corporation as labour member for Duncairn in 1897, the very idea that he would still be remembered a century later for his relentless championing of the working-class cause appeared unthinkable. Yet…

This edited collection of essays on the ‘new workplace’ reflects the major changes which have affected the position of British trade unions over the past decade. It brings together two important themes – new management practices and trade…

Britain’s most contentious industrial topic centers on the growing power and influence of shop stewards. This important and impartial study of their history and evaluation, and the problems now facing unions and management, is as necessary to…