Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions
Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations
ISBN: 978-1-84855-396-5, eISBN: 978-1-84855-397-2
Publication date: 11 April 2009
Abstract
This paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist, on the one hand, in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts and, on the other, establishment level resources secured from employers and union members. The paper documents a substantial decline in both the forms of union resource across the period 1990–2004 and attempts to explain both the reasons for this decline and its consequences for employee representation in Britain.
Citation
Willman, P. and Bryson, A. (2009), "Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions", Lewin, D. and Kaufman, B.E. (Ed.) Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations (Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-6186(2009)0000016005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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