Work

Contested Resources: Unions, Employers, and the Adoption of New Work Practices in US and UK Telecommunications

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: The pattern of adoption of high‐performance work practices has been explained in terms of strategic contingency and in terms of union presence. We compare the post‐deregulation/privatization changes in work practice at AT&T, Bell Atlantic and British Telecom. On the basis of these cases, we argue that the choice of new work practices should be understood as a consequence not only of the company's resources or changes in its environment, nor of a simple union presence, but also as a consequence of the practices' effects on union power, the nature of the union's engagement, and the union's strategic choices.

Source: British Journal of Industrial Relations

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00625.x

Authors: Matias Ramirez, Frederick Guy, David Beale

Institutions: University of Sussex, University of Manchester, Birkbeck, University of London

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

OpenAlex ID: W2089090089

FWCI: 8.963

Cites: 49

Cited by: 31

Related to: 10