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Trade Union Organising Among Low-Wage Service Workers: Lessons from America and New Zealand

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Sarah Oxenbridge
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This paper examines how american and new zealand (nz) unions have responded to the challenges of organising workers in low-wage service sectors. Different approaches to organising are examined, with particular focus on the "organising" model of unionism. American and NZ unions were found to have developed both similar and contrasting approaches to organising low-wage service workers, and the underlying factors are analysed. The article concludes with a discussion of the relevance of organising model methods for british unions in the context of the new employment relations act.

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Paper provided by ESRC Centre for Business Research in its series ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers with number wp160.

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Keywords: Trade Unions; Organising Model; USA; New Zealand;

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J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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  1. Richard W. Hurd & Adrienne McElwain, 1988. "Organizing clerical workers: Determinants of success," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 41(3), pages 360-373, April.
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