Trade Unionism, New and Old.

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...

Essential Service Unionism and the new Police Industrial Relations

We examined how an Australian police union boasting more than 99 percent density has resisted the trend of decline. The union historically eschewed arbitration and instead used political connections to achieve goals. The environment radically changed with a major corruption report and the introduction of new managerialist techniques. The union reconfigured relationships with management and gove...

Agricultural trade unionism and the crusade against outdoor relief: poor law politics in the Brix orth

This article examines the impact of the crusade against outdoor relief in the Brixworth Union (Nol'thamptonshire), which was one of the most fervent supporters of central government's poor law retreilchment campaign in the late-Victorian era. The paper examines the relationship between the origins of the crusade against out-relief and the advent of agricultural trade unionism. It argues that gu...

Trade Unionism: Differences and Similarities – A Comparative View on Europe, USA and Asia

Spaces of hope? Fatalism, trade unionism and the uneven geography of capital in whitegoods manufacturing

Spaces of hope? Fatalism, trade unionism and the uneven geography of capital in whitegoods manufacturing Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan University of Western Australia By engaging with the ‘politics of scale’ labour geography challenges the fatalism and consequent passivity that pervades much of the labour movement. Similarly, new forms of labour internationalism and union organisation offer th...