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11 apr 2012 · Measured by its achievements, industrial unionism represented the high point in the history of 20th century trade unions. This article analyses the defining characteristics and organizing model of industrial unions and argues that changes both in the labour market, in particular the decline of industry, and in union organizing and ...
- Jelle Visser
- 2012
3 giorni fa · During the 20th century, craft unions lost ground to industrial unions. This shift was both historic and controversial because the earliest unions had developed in order to represent skilled workers. These groups believed that unskilled workers were unsuitable for union organization.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The History of trade unions in the United Kingdom covers British trade union organisation, activity, ideas, politics, and impact, from the early 19th century to the recent past. For current status see Trade unions in the United Kingdom.
- Jelle Visser
- Presence and variations of industrial unions
- The decline of industrial unionism
- Is there life for the industrial union after industry?
- Funding
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS University of Amsterdam Summary Measured by its achievements, industrial unionism represented the high point in the history of 20th century trade unions. This article analyses the defining characteristics and organizing model of industrial unions and argues that changes both in the labour market,...
How does the decreasing share of industrial workers affect the industrial union? In order to answer that question I start with presenting some statistics on membership shares by type of union. Based on Ebbinghaus and Visser (2000), I distinguish five types of union organization: two variants of the sectoral union: (i) the encompassing sectoral unio...
occupational and staff unions (white collar) industrial (non-manual) general unions craft (blue collar) industrial (all grades and manual) Some important changes are not picked up by the statistics shown in Figure 3. First, as one can guess from the information provided in Figure 1, ‘industrial unions’ do represent fewer and fewer industrial worker...
From the preceding pages one might infer that my answer to this question is no. The industrial or political industrial union of the age of industry is no longer and I doubt that this particular form of unionism, including its wage policies, can be or should be reconstructed. I do not believe in a future of craft or occupational unionism either – it...
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9 apr 2021 · We document dramatic changes in the demographics of union members: when density was at its mid-century peak, union households were much less educated and more nonwhite than other households, whereas pre-World War II and today they are more similar to nonunion households on these dimensions.
- Henry S Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko, Suresh Naidu
- 2021
31 mar 2023 · Trade unions were formed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) to protect workers from unnecessary risks using dangerous machines, unhealthy working conditions, and excessive hours of work.
28 lug 2023 · By the middle of the 20th century, “industrial unions – embracing large numbers of unskilled or semiskilled workers – were recognised as powerful negotiating forces,” said Encyclopaedia ...
