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Workplace Union Resilience in the Merseyside Fire Brigade
Author(s) -
Darlington Ralph
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2338.00079
Subject(s) - fire brigade , restructuring , industrial relations , context (archaeology) , resilience (materials science) , political science , state (computer science) , psychological resilience , trade union , economy , public administration , law , history , engineering , economics , labour economics , psychology , archaeology , aeronautics , social psychology , physics , algorithm , computer science , thermodynamics
Here the author provides evidence from empirical case study research into the changing nature of workplace industrial relations and trade union organisation within the Merseyside Fire Brigade over the last 10–15 years. He documents the main processes of development within an historical context assessing workplace unionism during the 1980s, the recent challenge posed by managerial restructuring in the early 1990s, and the wider implications for debates about the ‘state’ of workplace unionism in Britain today.