The Closed Shop: Debate, Policy and the Purpose of this Book

Stephen Dunn and John Gennard
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Stephen Dunn: Kingston Polytechnic
John Gennard: University of Strathclyde

Chapter 1 in The Closed Shop in British Industry, 1984, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We wrote this book because the one comprehensive study of the closed shop in Britain is now twenty years old. The study is McCarthy’s.1 It has endured well into an era in which, according to piecemeal evidence, the pattern and nature of the practice has changed significantly. A replacement seems long overdue. In attempting to provide it we were inclined to adopt an approach broadly similar to McCarthy’s. Like him, we were primarily interested in the perennial industrial-relations themes of job control and job regulation. Consequently our main focus is on the purpose and influence of the closed shop in the relationship between trade unions and management.

Keywords: Trade Union; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Union Membership; Weak Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17532-1_1

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