Inside the Unions - A Comparative Analysis of Policy-Making in Australian and British Printing and Telecommunication Trade Unions (Paperback, New edition)

This book consists of a comparative analysis of policy-making in Australian and British telecommunications and printing trade unions. It tests the validity of different theoretical models of union policy-making and behaviour, whilst also assessing the strength of the book's hypothesis, that informal micro-political influences inside unions - such as personal friendships, enmities and loyalties - affect union policy-making to a greater extent than has been previously acknowledged in the literature. Two central questions lie at the heart of this book: How, and why, do unions adopt specific policies? What factors explain the different behaviour of similar unions, when faced with comparable policy choices? As a former senior union officer the author realised that trade unions are often wary of publically disclosing those factors which informed their policy choices. For this reason an interview-rich methodology was adopted, which involved a seventeen-year longitudinal study, in which over 220 officers and staff of all the relevant unions, were interviewed in depth. The result is a book which throws new light on the rich and complex process of union policy-making.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Trade Unions. Past, Present and Future, 21
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2014
Authors:	Ed Blissett
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431731-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-431731-X
Barcode:	9783034317313

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