Summary This article examines the academic debate over union democracy and compares it with recent research on union renewal in the United States. The juxtaposition reveals that revitalization in US unions has not happened in the ways assumed in the literature on union democracy. Rather than being largely a bottom-up process, revitalization has contained a strong element of centralism and coordination. I suggest that union democracy has too often been framed in singular terms, as only involving the curbing of the illegitimate accumulation of power by union leaders. Yet a key problem faced by unions today -how they might best aggregate the interests of diverse workers and represent new constituencies -is also fundamentally a democratic conce...
In the Western world in the late 1960s, the post-war boom ended in growing social conflict. The sque...
SummaryThis article seeks to identify organizational structures and processes that contribute to inc...
The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional align...
Since the Webbs published Industrial Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the principle t...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions...
[Excerpt] Much of the research on union democracy and almost all of the press coverage focuses on ab...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
International audienceTrade unions are little studied in political science apart from some pioneerin...
No one can doubt that trade unions are instruments of democracy in so far as they are genuinely repr...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
Throughout much of the 20th century, the political influence of unions relied on strong ties to labo...
There is an increasing tendency for governments to try to involve union leadership in relations with...
Union density in France has fallen to exceptionally low levels, yet unions are able to mobilise mill...
National audienceTrade unions are little studied in political science apart from some pioneering wor...
In the Western world in the late 1960s, the post-war boom ended in growing social conflict. The sque...
SummaryThis article seeks to identify organizational structures and processes that contribute to inc...
The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional align...
Since the Webbs published Industrial Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the principle t...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions...
[Excerpt] Much of the research on union democracy and almost all of the press coverage focuses on ab...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
International audienceTrade unions are little studied in political science apart from some pioneerin...
No one can doubt that trade unions are instruments of democracy in so far as they are genuinely repr...
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries ...
Throughout much of the 20th century, the political influence of unions relied on strong ties to labo...
There is an increasing tendency for governments to try to involve union leadership in relations with...
Union density in France has fallen to exceptionally low levels, yet unions are able to mobilise mill...
National audienceTrade unions are little studied in political science apart from some pioneering wor...
In the Western world in the late 1960s, the post-war boom ended in growing social conflict. The sque...
SummaryThis article seeks to identify organizational structures and processes that contribute to inc...
The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional align...