Trade Unions and Their Members

The issue of trade union democracy has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. The government has pursued a policy designed in part to 'give unions back to their members' and the decline in the numbers of employees joining unions raises the question of whether trade unionism is losing its relevance. This book presents research papers which deal with these issues and reveals how the unions are adopting to legislative and other changes as they enter the 1990s.

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List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Whose Union? Power and Bureaucracy in the Labour Movement; E.Heery & P.Fosh - Law and Union Democracy: The Changing Shape; P.Elias - Changing the Rules: Pressures on Trade Union Constitutions; M.Steele - Full-time Officers and the Shop Steward Network: Patterns of Cooperation and Interdependence; E.Heery & J.Kelly - Local Trade Unionists in Action: Patterns of Union Democracy; P.Fosh & S.Cohen - The Contours of Local Trade Unionism in a Period of Restructuring; P.Fairbrother - Gender, Power and Trade Union Democracy; T.Rees - The Future of this Great Movement of Ours; J.MacInnes - Index