Hospitality unionism and labour market adjustment: Toward Schumpeterian unionism?

Geographic Spillover of Unionism

If a union successfully organizes one plant, does it make it easier to organize other nearby plants? If the answer is yes, there is a spillover effect from one plant to the next. If spillovers are important, then when a union gets it foot in the door and organizes some initial plants, unionism may spread like a contagion and turn a city into what trade unionists call a “union town.” The purpose...

"Faculty Unionism and Collegial Decision-Making"

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

New Unionism and Over-Managed Professors

The National Education Association has been exploring what President Bob Chase calls New Unionism as a means to increase professionalism for teachers at all levels and improve the quality of the education teachers provide. This is a concept with particular relevance of higher education. Higher education faculty and staff are “managed professionals,” as I’ve noted elsewhere,1 and need a public p...

The Interindustry Structure of Unionism, Earnings, and Earnings Dispersion

The TUC and civil alliance building: towards social movement unionism?

British union revival strategies range from recruitment and US-style organising approaches and workplace partnerships through union mergers and restructuring to efforts to (re-)build political and institutional conduits. Social movement unionism (SMU), unionism which extends beyond concern with matters of job regulation to ‘reaching out’ to other groups to emphasise social justice aims, has nev...