Union Business - Trade Union Organisation and Financial Reform in the Thatcher Years

Klappentext A study of the impact of financial organisation on trades unions during the Thatcher years. Zusammenfassung Focusing on unions' financial status! the authors show that! though most unions are financially flimsy and dependent on the employers they bargain with! successful unions have efficient collection mechanisms! effective budgeting systems! a stable membership! avoid costly strikes! and competition with other unions for members. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: unions in the 1980s; 2. The financial status of British trade unions 1950-1989; 3. Financial differences between unions; 4. The role of financial matters in union organisation; 5. The politics of union finances; 6. Union size, growth and financial performance; 7. Strike activity and union finances; 8. The National Union of Mineworkers: strikes and financial disaster; 9. The GMB: merger and financial reform; 10. The Amalgamated Engineering Union: back from the brink; 11. The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union: competitive unionism and financial survival; 12. The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Trade Union: accountability and financial control; 13. Conclusions: union business and business unionism; Appendices; References.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Aston, Tim Morris, Paul Willman, Paul (London Business School) Morris Willman, Paul Etc. Morris Willman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.1993
• EAN: 9780521417259
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41725-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Managemen
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education