The Growth of the Post-entry Closed Shop since the mid-1960s: Theoretical Framework

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

Chapter 4 in The Closed Shop in British Industry, 1984, pp 41-55 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter and the next attempt to explain the rise of the post-entry closed shop since the early 1960s. We begin by constructing from published material and inductive reasoning two discrete, although not mutually exclusive, theories. These are tested against data derived from our field survey in Chapter 5. The first, which we call the ‘hard theory’, states that the post-entry closed shop spread because trade unions, employers or both identified it as having a significant impact upon industrial relations from which they were likely to gain substantial advantages. The second, which we call the ‘soft theory’, states that in contrast the post-entry closed shop spread almost as a side-effect of other industrial-relations developments which reduced its significance and therefore its contentiousness as an issue between unions and employers.

Keywords: Trade Unionist; Collective Bargaining; Union Member; Industrial Relation; Union Membership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17532-1_4

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