Union Business: Trade Union Organisation and Financial Reform in the Thatcher Years

by Paul Willman, Beverly Aston, Tim Morris, et al.

It is fashionable to speak of trades unions in the UK as organisations in decline. However, it is their organisation and, in particular, their financial status, which ultimately dictates unions' ability to survive, recruit, and influence employers. This book provides the first systematic picture of union financial status for thirty years, and reveals a dramatic picture. Though, overall, unions have become financially less healthy in the post-war period,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521153131
• ISBN13: 9780521153133
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"