The Emasculation of Labour

Gill Ursell and Paul Blyton
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Gill Ursell: Trinity and All Saints College
Paul Blyton: UWIST

Chapter 7 in State, Capital and Labour, 1988, pp 152-190 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract If the 1970s contained the high water mark of labour’s influence, the tide has clearly turned in more recent years. Indeed, to continue for a moment this aqueous analogy, several undertowing currents were already present by the 1970s, handicapping labour’s advance and indicating the means of its subsequent decline. Yet, whereas tides flow as well as ebb, there are indications that both employers and the state have erected strong sea-walls to reduce the likelihood of any future return to the levels of dependency on labour witnessed in the 1960s and early 1970s. What is remarkable is how a series of factors have coincided—not wholly fortuitously, as we shall see—to diminish the position of labour vis-à-vis both state and capital.

Keywords: Trade Union; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Union Membership; Union Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19514-5_7

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