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Title

Trade unions at the crossroads / Peter Fairbrother.

Author

Fairbrother, Peter.

Publication

New York ; London : Mansell, 1999.

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Description

xv, 365 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Trade Unions at the Crossroads presents a detailed study of trade union activity at workplace level. It assesses both the advances and successes achieved in a hostile climate and the challenges and difficulties encountered. Peter Fairbrother enunciates the pressing debates about the place and position of trade unions today.".
• "Case studies of workplaces in manufacturing, privatized utilities and public sectors in the West Midlands illuminate and support the arguments for union renewal presented here. The prospects for such renewal are rooted, the author argues, in the ways unions organize, their modes of representation and the objectives they pursue."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Employment and work relations in context

Uniform Title

Employment and work relations in context.

Subjects

• Labor unions > Great Britain
• Labor unions > Great Britain > Case studies
• Industrial relations > Great Britain > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. An Introduction. 1. Workplace Unionism. 2. The Shifting Contours of Unionism. 3. The West Midlands: Place and Time -- Pt. II. Manufacturing. 4. Economistic Defensiveness. 5. Bargained Accommodation and a Charade. 6. Extending the Boundaries of Trade Unionism. 7. Struggles and Divisions -- Pt. III. Utilities -- 8. 'Responsible' Representation: British Telecommunications plc. 9. Removed Forms of Representation: Gas. 10. Participative Representation: Water -- Pt. IV. Public Services. 11. Signs of Active Trade Unionism: The Benefits Agency. 12. Managerial Decentralization and Active Trade Unionism: The Inland Revenue. 13. Rebuilding Trade Unionism: Local Government -- Pt. V. The Politics of Workplace Trade Unionism. 14. Dilemmas and Prospects: The Future for Trade Unions.

ISBN

0720122023

LCCN

99028631

OCLC

• 43991213
• ocm43991213
• SCSB-3839060

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries