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Facilitators and Inhibitors of Collective Action: A Case Study of a US ‐Owned Manufacturing Plant
Author(s) -
O'Sullivan Michelle,
Turner Thomas
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2013.00882.x
Subject(s) - collective action , action (physics) , business , sample (material) , work (physics) , value (mathematics) , mobilization , public relations , industrial organization , political science , engineering , computer science , law , mechanical engineering , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , machine learning , politics
This article develops a theoretical model of collective action at work using the key concepts of mobilization triggers, facilitating factors, and inhibiting factors. It then illustrates the value of this model for understanding why a low‐pay, low‐skill, blue‐collar manufacturing facility remained non‐union, drawing primarily on the accounts of a limited sample of redundant workers. These accounts are used to demonstrate the importance of social contexts where inhibiting conditions dominate and where management practices succeed in gaining worker consent and forestalling a collective response from workers.