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Building Stronger Unions: A Review of Organising in Britain

In: Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies

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  • Paul Nowak

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The launch of the TUC Organising Academy in 1998 was meant to herald a shift in resources and culture in British union movement. Moving the motion on ‘New Unionism’ at the 1997 Congress, USDAW’s general secretary spoke of the need for unions to go back to ‘basic, grass roots organising principles’, noting that: The drop in … membership since 1979 has concentrated all our minds. [We] were like rabbits caught in the headlights of the on-coming Tory juggernaught. We’ve been content to respond by blaming the government, apathetic [or] ... part-time women workers and young people, the so-called ‘Thatcher’s children’. We now have to move from recrimination to determination. Organising has got to become an intrinsic and integral part of our union activity.

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  • Paul Nowak, 2009. "Building Stronger Unions: A Review of Organising in Britain," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gregor Gall (ed.), Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies, chapter 7, pages 131-153, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23347-8_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230233478_7
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    Cited by:

    1. Carl Parker & James Rees, 2013. "Membership growth at a time of union decline," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 19(4), pages 521-538, November.
    2. Chris F Wright, 2013. "The response of unions to the rise of precarious work in Britain," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 24(3), pages 279-296, September.

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