During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...

AbstractIn recent years, parallel trends of organizational restructuring have become manifest among trade unions. Sharing similar experiences of stagnant membership and falling density rates, coupled with structural shifts in employment from industry to services and a growing pressure to attend...

In recent years, parallel trends of organizational restructuring have become manifest among trade unions. Sharing similar experiences of stagnant membership and falling density rates, coupled with structural shifts in employment from industry to services and a growing pressure to attend to the...

Die Autoren analysieren die gleichzeitige Entstehung von Multibranchengewerkschaften (conglomerate unions) in den Niederlanden und in Deutschland. Dabei stellen sie fest, daß diese Entwicklung keine länderübergreifenden Zusammenhänge zeigt. Es sind die gleichen endogenen Faktoren in den...