Union Organizing in Britain: The Views of Local Full‐time Officials

Ed Snape

doi:10.1108/01425459410073942

Union Organizing in Britain: The Views of Local Full‐time Officials

Ed Snape

Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems

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Explores the recruitment and organizing experience of trade unions. Draws on in‐depth interviews with union full‐time officials and on the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys (WIRS). Describes the experience of union recruitment, and evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of recruitment campaigns, in which unions had little success in extending organization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	48-62
Number of pages	15
Journal	Employee Relations
Volume	16
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/01425459410073942
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 1994

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Industrial relations
Recognition
Recruitment
Trade unions
United Kingdom

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