Organizing the Unorganized
This chapter has two foci. In the first place, it develops a framework for analysing union organizing activity in a comparative context. Organizing strategies are distinguished in terms of their centrality to unions, targeting, and methods used, and the utility of the framework is illustrated by reference to patterns of union organizing in the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain. In the second place, the chapter develops an explanation of national patterns. A multi-factor explanation is offered that identifies national industrial relations institutions, the strategies of state and employers, and inherited union identities as causal factors. Once again, the argument is illustrated by reference to the five national cases.
Keywords: union organizing, institutions, strategies, state, employers, union identities
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