Sources of change in trade unions
基于英国工会专职官员的大规模调查,识别促使工会代表参与组织未组织工人和调整利益代表策略的内外部压力,并评论当前工会变革理论。
It is argued widely that if trade unions are to experience renewal then they must invest in organizing the unorganized and align their strategies of interest representation with the needs of women and those in atypical employment. This article examines the groups and factors internal and external to trade unions that encourage representatives to engage in both types of activity. Drawing on a large survey of union paid officers in Britain, it identifies those internal and external pressures that encourage change and uses these data to comment on current theories of change in trade unions.