Unions in a Contrary World - The Future of the Australian Trade Union Movement

Klappentext This book explains the decline in trade union participation! looking at both macro and micro levels. Zusammenfassung This book explains the dramatic fall in trade union participation in Australia over the past thirty years. It considers both macro and micro levels! looking at the economy and the labour market! people's ideological dispositions towards unionism! the role of the state! and unions' political and industrial strategies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Patterns and issues in union decline; 2. Joining and leaving; 3. Sympathy for unions; 4. Structural change in the labour market; 5. The institutional break in union membership; 6. Within the workplace; 7. The Accord and the post-Accord industrial relations order; 8. The future for Australian unions; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: David Peetz, David (Griffith University Peetz, Peetz David
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Brennan (Editor), Francis G. Castles (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.1998
• EAN: 9780521639507
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63950-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Reshaping Australian Instituti; Reshaping Australian Institutions
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Australia, Trade Unions, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety