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The Organization of Organized Discontent: The Case of the Postal Workers in Britain

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The case of the postal workers in Britain is examined in order to develop our knowledge of intra‐union oppositional groupings. Such groupings within the postal workers are shown to have influence as the result of the ‘strategy’ of a small number of activists within largely conducive circumstances of internal strife and worker combativity. However, they do not accord to our normal understanding of factions, being better characterized as shifting and temporary networks and alliances.

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  • Gregor Gall, 2001. "The Organization of Organized Discontent: The Case of the Postal Workers in Britain," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 39(3), pages 393-409, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:39:y:2001:i:3:p:393-409
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00206
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    1. Gregor Gall, 2018. "The uses, abuses and non-uses of Rethinking Industrial Relations in understanding industrial relations and organised labour," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 39(4), pages 681-700, November.
    2. Paul Stewart & Miguel Martínez Lucio, 2011. "Collective narratives and politics in the contemporary study of work: the new management practices debate," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 25(2), pages 327-341, June.
    3. Bob Carter & Steven Davies & Peter Fairbrother, 2002. "The Rise and Rise of Market Relations in the British Public Sector: Implications for Industrial Relations," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 13(1), pages 36-59, June.
    4. David Beale & Stephen Mustchin, 2014. "The bitter recent history of employee involvement at Royal Mail: An aggressive management agenda versus resilient workplace unionism," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 35(2), pages 289-308, May.
    5. Daniel Evans & Karl Jones, 2025. "Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 39(5), pages 1269-1279, October.

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