State, Law and Trade Unionism

Theo Nichols and Nadir Sugur

Chapter 7 in Global Management, Local Labour, 2004, pp 143-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Over the last quarter of a century trade unionism has declined in most countries. In the developed world an important reason for this has been the changing composition of employment, a consequence of which has been the decline of those very industries that had a high trade-union membership, for instance, coal mining, iron and steel, and shipbuilding. Further factors contributing to the decline include the increased power of capital over labour as facilitated by the rise of neo-liberal politics, legislative change and the deregulation of labour markets. At an ideological level, some part may have been played by the claim that employers are now impotent in the face of ‘globalisation’. Related to these developments, in particular as far as militancy is concerned, has been the fear of job loss. Other reasons sometimes invoked include assumptions about a decline in the importance of class and most especially of class consciousness and the rise of apathy. In the developing world it is by no means unknown for intellectuals to claim the importance of subjective elements of the above type in discussing the state of the labour movement in their own countries.

Keywords: Trade Unionism; Minimum Wage; Trade Union; Collective Bargaining; Democrat Party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230504578_8

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