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The Closed Shop in 1980s: Conclusions and Prospects

In: The Closed Shop in British Industry

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  • Stephen Dunn

    (Kingston Polytechnic)

  • John Gennard

    (University of Strathclyde)

Abstract

Our research has focused on the development of the closed shop in the two decades since McCarthy’s study. In drawing together the strands of this research, is it possible to ascertain how the closed shop will fare in the 1980s? From recent happenings the decade would appear to be one of considerable uncertainty for the practice. The period of growth as a result of which the closed-shop population reached a peak in the late 1970s seemed to be ending in 1979, even before a Conservative government was elected and passed legislation that presented significant obstacles to further expansion. Is further growth still possible in the 1980s? After all, even at its peak the practice covered less than half of all trade-union members. Or did the period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s bring together a combination of factors favourable to the closed shop’s spread which are unlikely to be repeated in the 1980s? And what of existing closed shops? Are they durable enough to survive the harsher legal and economic climates of the present decade? Will the closed shop decline significantly? Will it fade from industrial relations altogether?1 To tackle these questions we begin by briefly isolating the factors we consider salient to the recent growth of the closed shop.

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  • Stephen Dunn & John Gennard, 1984. "The Closed Shop in 1980s: Conclusions and Prospects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Closed Shop in British Industry, chapter 8, pages 145-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17532-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17532-1_8
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