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Union Retreat and the Regions The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour

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ISBN-10: 0117023760

ISBN-13: 9780117023765

Edition: 1996

Authors: Andrew Martin, Peter Sunley, Wills

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Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work,…    
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Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Martha E. Snell, Ph.D., is Professor of Education in the Dept. of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, Curry School of Education, at The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

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Labour Market Restructuring and Regional Unionism
Striking Out the Past? Geographies of Industrial Action
Decentralization and Local Industrial Politics
Mapping Union Futures: Representation and Organisation in a Detraditionalized Economy