Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?

This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics, organization theory, history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions’ prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as:

• the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990s
• the way in which unions’ own structures inhibit their revitalization
• the apparent failure of unions to thrive in the benign time...