Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions

by J. David Edelstein and Malcolm Warner

A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, or­ganizationally oriented theory of union democ­racy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illus­trates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, formal organization itself can constrain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878556230
• ISBN13: 9780878556236
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"