%0 Book
%A Ed Blissett
%D 2013
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1662-7784
%@ 9783035305364
%T Inside the Unions
%B A Comparative Analysis of Policy-Making in Australian and British Printing and Telecommunication Trade Unions
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0536-4
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053306
%X This book consists of a comparative analysis of policy-making in Australian and British telecommunications and printing trade unions. It tests the validity of different theoretical models of union policy-making and behaviour, whilst also assessing the strength of the book’s hypothesis, that informal micro-political influences inside unions – such as personal friendships, enmities and loyalties – affect union policy-making to a greater extent than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.   Two central questions lie at the heart of this book: How, and why, do unions adopt specific policies? What factors explain the different behaviour of similar unions, when faced with comparable policy choices?   As a former senior union officer the author realised that trade unions are often wary of publically disclosing those factors which informed their policy choices. For this reason an interview-rich methodology was adopted, which involved a seventeen-year longitudinal study, in which over 220 officers and staff of all the relevant unions, were interviewed in depth. The result is a book which throws new light on the rich and complex process of union policy-making.
%K behaviour, friendships, loyalties
%G English