Gallie, Duncan, Roger Penn, and Michael Rose, (eds.), Trade Unionism in Recession, (1996)

本 労働組合・労働運動

Gallie, Duncan, Roger Penn, and Michael Rose, (eds.), 1996, Trade Unionism in Recession, Oxford University Press.

During the 1980's, British trade unionism confronted its greatest challenge, and suffered its greatest reverses, since the inter-war period. After a decade of rapid growth, the unions experienced a steep decline in membership, and a virtual marginalization in national political affairs. By 1990, a united, self-confident, social movement as well as a powerful industrial bargainer, often seemed more closely akin to a demoralized collection of special interest groupings.

This book addresses a number of fundamental questions raised by the record of these years. It examines the reasons for membership loss and the implications for trade union influence in the workplace. It looks at the steps the unions took in reaction to the membership problem and the difficulties they confronted doing so. It also looks at whether this period can be seen as making a fundamental break with the past, resulting in irretrievable loss by British trade unionism of its former important position in British society and the British workplace, or whether the past decade has been but a temporary recession and the future can still see revived movement.

1. The British Debate on Trade Unionism: Crisis and Continuity
2. Employer Policies and Trade Union Influence
3. Still Life in Swindon: Case-Studies in Union Survival and Employer Policy in a "Sunrise" Labour Market
4. Trade Union Allegiance and Decline in British
5. Growth and Decline in Trade Union Membership in Great Britain: Evidence from Work Histories
6. The Union Relative Wage Gap
7. The Experience of Trade Unions in Rochdale During the 1980s
8. Trade Unionism in a Hostile Environment: An Account of Attempts to Organize the North Sea Off-Shore Oil Industry Between 1970 and 1990

1980年代、イギリスの労働組合主義は、戦間期以来の最も大きな挑戦に直面し、大きな失敗に苦しんだ。急速に発展した10年間の後、ユニオンはメンバーシップの急激な減少と、国の政治事情における実質的な周辺化を経験した。1990年までに、強力な産業交渉人と同様、統合された、堂々とした社会運動は、特別な利益集団の士気阻喪した集まりに近いものとしばしばみなされるようになった。

この本は、近年の実情によって提起された、数々の根本的疑問に答える。メンバーシップの減少の理由と、職場におけるユニオンの影響力に関するインプリケーションを検証する。またこの本は、ユニオンがメンバーシップ喪失の問題と、直面する困難に対してどのような対策をとってきたかを確認する。この時代は過去とは根本的に異なるのであろうか。イギリスの社会と職場における労働組合主義の以前の重要な地位が、取り返しのつかないほど失われてしまったのだろうか。過去10年間は、一時的な後退に過ぎないのか、未来で運動が再生しうるのかを検討する。