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Union Decline in Britain

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: This paper considers the rapid decline in unionization that has occurred in Britain since the late 1970s. The overwhelming factor underpinning falling unionization was a failure to organize new establishments set up in the last twenty years or so, thus confirming that developments since 1990 represent a continuation of the pattern revealed in earlier work for the 1980–90 period. The sharpest falls in unionization occurred in private manufacturing establishments set up after 1980. Finally, there is some evidence that it is age of workplace, rather than age of worker, that is the critical age‐based factor behind union decline.

Source: British Journal of Industrial Relations

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00183

Author: Stephen Machin

Institutions: University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science

Language: English

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Essex, London School of Economics and Political Science, Leverhulme Trust, University College London