Militant partnership: a radical pluralist analysis of workforce dialectics

Tony Dundon and Tony Dobbins
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Tony Dundon: National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Work, Employment & Society, 2015, vol. 29, issue 6, 912-931

Abstract: The sociological understandings of both cooperation and resistance at work are complex. This article contributes to knowledge about dialectic tensions concerning both collaborative and conflictual workforce orientations in the context of a ‘pre-arranged’ union-management partnership agreement. It reports unofficial workforce militancy in opposition to both management and union policy regarding a socially constructed cooperative work regime. The article advances a ‘radical pluralist’ analysis to understand the formation of worker interests and attendant workforce orientations within capitalism.

Keywords: conflict and cooperation; militancy; partnership; radical pluralism; worker orientations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017014559961

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