経済変動、社会変化と組合成長 : イギリス銀行業界における組織化一九一八-八七

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The aim of this article is to analyze and re-assess the processes of union growth at a disaggregated level (the banking industry). This may best be accomplished through an interdisciplinary approach, as economic and sociological theories of union growth, which are summarized briefly in the first part, focus rather upon specific causalities in a different time span. In the second section, short-term economic and episodic factors of union growth are identified in terms of both a conventional analysis and an empirical back-up. In contrast with recent research in this field, this analysis reveals the rather unstable influence of economic variables and the predominant impact of episodic events such as industrial action and the war-time increase in female employment. It is also argued that structural shifts in the pattern of union growth probably reflect changes in employers, attitudes and the industrial relations system. In the last section, long-term structural factors of union growth are examined. A few factors, including changes in internal labour market structure and the social custom of union affiliation, seem to have been determinants, whereas increasing employment concentration and a toughening legal system are not necessarily consistent with the trend of union membership. The upsurge in research in this field has been stimulated by the steep decline in union membership both in Britain and the United States. This research shows that the logic of union growth in the service sector differs significantly from that in the manufacturing sector and that unionization can progress in other less organized tertiary industries, adding a new ingredient of the black-coated worker to British unionism.
社会経済史学会の論文
1996-03-25

経済変動、社会変化と組合成長 : イギリス銀行業界における組織化一九一八-八七

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