ADOPTION OF THE ORGANISING MODEL IN BRITISH TRADE UNIONS: SOME EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING, SCIENCE AND FINANCE (MSF)
研究了英国MSF工会采纳美国‘组织模式’的转型过程，通过NHS成员组织在两个地区的案例，揭示了转型中的紧张与困难，并批评了将工会衰落归因于客观环境或仅靠管理层命令就能解决的观点。
There is increasing evidence of a widespread recognition within the British trade union movement of the need to change. Amongst the directions of change being considered is adoption of the ‘organising model’ borrowed from the United States. MSF was probably the first major British union to go down this path, thereby promising to transform itself from an organisation that had pioneered the conservative ‘servicing model’ to one in the forefront of promoting a radical alternative. This transformation is far from unproblematic and this article examines the tensions and difficulties encountered through a study of NHS membership organisation two regions. In the process of the examination, the article highlights the inadequacies of approaches to union decline that either regard it as an inevitable result of objective circumstances or believe that new policies to counter decline can be adopted by managerial fiat and without recourse to widespread discussion among members to build a consensus.