British Unions in Decline: Determinants of the 1980s Fall in Union Recognition
利用1980、1984和1990年英国工作场所工业关系调查数据，发现1980至1990年间承认工会的机构比例下降近20%，主要源于1980年代新成立机构认可率低，并预测1990年代工会衰落不会逆转。
This examination of establishment-level data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990 shows that the proportion of British establishments (that is, workplaces in both the private and public sector) that recognized unions for collective bargaining over pay and working conditions fell by almost 20% between 1980 and 1990. Largely accountable for this decline was a much lower rate of union recognition in establishments founded in the 1980s than in previous years, particularly in the private sector. Citing these findings, as well as recent structural changes in employment in the British labor market (such as the shift from manufacturing to services, from manual to non-manual employment, and from full-time to part-time work) and a government that continues to enact anti-union legislation, the authors foresee no reversal of unions' decline in the 1990s.