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Job regulation and the managerial challenge to trade unions: evidence from two union membership surveys
Author(s) -
Whitston Colin,
Roe Alan,
Jefferys Steve
Publication year - 1999
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 - 10.1111/1468-2338.00138
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , trade union , general partnership , representation (politics) , work (physics) , collective bargaining , survey data collection , union density , industrial relations , social partnership , political science , general social survey , public relations , labour economics , sociology , public administration , economics , social science , law , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , politics , computer science , programming language , engineering
Data from a survey of union activists in twelve unions, and from a survey of members of the Communication Workers Union, are used to argue that changes in labour management and work organisation do not provide scope for social partnership at work, but do represent new difficulties for collective representation.