Comparative Union Democracy

Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions
1. Auflage 1979
ISBN: 978-0-87855-623-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illustrates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, formal organization itself can constrain a tendency toward oligarchy by stimulating union competition among full-time officers attempting to rise in the union hierarchy.Comparative Union Democracy is easily the best work on the subject that has appeared in years. It should be required reading for all those interested in organizational government, participatory democracy, generally, as well as in the labor movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edelstein, J. David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE COMPARATIVE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1 Introduction: The Comparative Approach 2 The Nature of Oligarchy 3 An Organisational Theory of Union Democracy PART TWO OVERALL FINDINGS 4 Overall British-American Differences in Organisation and Opposition 5 Organisation and Opposition in the United States 6 Organisation and Opposition in Britain 7 Opposition, Factions and Political Culture PART THREE CASE-STUDIES IN OPPOSITION 8 Case-Study 1: Sustained Electoral Opposition in the British Mine workers' Union 9 Case-Study 2: Sustained Electoral Opposition in the British Engineering Union 10 Case-Study 3: Top-level Defeats in Certain American Unions PART FOUR CONCLUSIONS 11 The Future of Union Democracy

Über Autor(innen)

J. David Edelstein