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The logic of ‘market‐share’ trade unionism: is membership decline inevitable?
Author(s) -
Willman Paul
Publication year - 1989
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/j.1468-2338.1989.tb00073.x
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , context (archaeology) , market share , trade union , economics , private sector , single market , business , market economy , international economics , economic growth , european union , finance , ecology , paleontology , biology
In the context of trade union membership decline since 1979 the author analyses the pressures which support competition between unions to secure larger shares of the membership in existing organised sectors rather than membership expansion in the growing private services sector