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Academic Workers and Union Membership: An Inevitable Dilution of Solidarity?
Author(s) -
D’ART DARYL,
TURNER THOMAS
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00398.x
Subject(s) - solidarity , individualism , trade union , work (physics) , political science , labour economics , sociology , economics , law , mechanical engineering , politics , engineering
The growth of service employment and new forms of work has supposedly fostered the diffusion of individual orientations at the expense of traditional forms of union solidarity. These developments suggest that academics are likely to manifest an individualist orientation and a weak attachment to trade union membership. Based on a survey of unionized employees in a university setting, we examine whether there are differences in union attachment and solidarity between professionals and other occupational groups.