Employee Relations: Volume 16 Issue 2

Unions on the Brink?: Themes and Issues

John Salmon, Paul Stewart

The 1980s has been viewed as a period of considerable change inindustrial relations. The transformation of the global market and newstyle management practices have raised…

Structure and Identity: The Impact of Union Structure in Comparative Perspective

Gregor Murray

What is the impact of union structure on the strategic capacity ofnational union movements to respond to economic re‐structuring? Focuseson the experience of five countries…

Divided We Fall: Unions and Their Members

Harriet Bradley

Assesses the future for unions in terms of sectional, attitudinaland behavioural divisions among their membership. Data are drawn from asurvey of 200 employees of five…

Trade Unions and Organizational Innovation: British and Swedish Experiences

Paul Thompson, Terry Wallace, Per Sederblad

The capacity of trade unions to renew themselves clearly depends ona variety of political and organizational factors. British tradeunionism has long been seen as defensive…

New Style Agreements at Japanese Transplants in the UK: The Implications for Trade Union Decline

David Grant

New style agreements are designed to foster co‐operative,conflict‐free industrial relations. Provides an account of what happenedat two Japanese manufacturing transplants in the…

Local Industrial Politics: Spatial Subsystems in British Engineering

Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Jane Wills

A fast‐emerging theme in industrial relations research is thatindustrial relations systems in West European countries are undergoingdecentralization, and that the most effective…

The Union of the Future and the Future of Unions

Tim Morris, Paul Willman

Reports the results of a repeat survey on the financial performanceand management of TUC affiliated unions. Data are available for 1989 and1993, covering income, expenditure, the…