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New unions in the UK : the vanguard or the rearguard of the union movement?
Author(s) -
Ross Catharine
Publication year - 2013
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/irj.12004
Subject(s) - vanguard , movement (music) , trade union , political science , schedule , economic history , political economy , economics , labour economics , management , history , art , aesthetics , ancient history
Between J anuary 1999 and M arch 2010, 34 trade unions entered the C ertification O fficer list or schedule in the UK . This article reports on a survey of those unions, discussing the extent to which they represent new forms of unionism and the possible implications for union revitalisation.