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Trade Unions and their Members

Studies in Union Democracy and Organization

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Fosh

    1. The Management School, Imperial College, London, UK

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  2. Edmund Heery

    1. Kingston Polytechnic Business School, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Whose Union? Power and Bureaucracy in the Labour Movement

    • Edmund Heery, Patricia Fosh
    Pages 1-28

  3. Law and Union Democracy: The Changing Shape

    • Patrick Elias
    Pages 29-51

  4. Changing the Rules: Pressures on Trade Union Constitutions

    • Mairi Steele
    Pages 52-74

  5. Full-time Officers and the Shop Steward Network: Patterns of Co-operation and Interdependence

    • Edmund Heery, John Kelly
    Pages 75-106

  6. Local Trade Unionists in Action: Patterns of Union Democracy

    • Patricia Fosh, Sheila Cohen
    Pages 107-146

  7. The Contours of Local Trade Unionism in a Period of Restructuring

    • Peter Fairbrother
    Pages 147-176

  8. Gender, Power and Trade Union Democracy

    • Teresa Rees
    Pages 177-205

  9. The Future of This Great Movement of Ours

    • John MacInnes
    Pages 206-232

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 233-241
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The issue of trade union democracy has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. The government has pursued a policy designed in part to 'give unions back to their members' and the decline in the numbers of employees joining unions raises the question of whether trade unionism is losing its relevance. This book presents research papers which deal with these issues and reveals how the unions are adopting to legislative and other changes as they enter the 1990s.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Management School, Imperial College, London, UK

    Patricia Fosh

  • Kingston Polytechnic Business School, UK

    Edmund Heery

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