This work takes a unique analytical approach to the future of trade unions the world over. It pretends there has never been a trade union anywhere, thus allowing the authors to challenge and evaluate every single tenet upon which trade unions rest. It then designs an organization to deliver the services and protection that today's employees need wherever they may be working. This New Model Union (NMU) differs radically from today's unions in respect of its structure, staffing and the positive services it makes available to its members. The book does, however, take a practical approach. After outlining the problems confronting unions in all industrialized countries - for example, the fast changes in working environments, flexible work practices, high unemployment - the authors then suggest how such difficulties can be overcome, how much of the New Model Union is possible and in what time scale, building partly on existing best practice from trade unions around the world.
- ISBN10 0631207651
- ISBN13 9780631207658
- Publish Date 30 October 1997
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 8 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Language English