Das Organisierungsmodell wird von Praktikern und Akademikern als erfolgversprechende Strategie angesehen, die amerikanische Gewerkschaftsbewegung im neuen Jahrhundert zu revitalisieren. Der Beitrag will einen ersten kritischen Überblick der publizierten Literatur verschaffen. Es wird nach einer...

This article compares the attitudes of East and West German workers to their union and works council. The author's research in the clothing and textile industry examines to what extent union members in East Germany have individualistic or collectivist attitudes towards the newly established...

The formal transfer of West German industrial relations institutions into the East has been successful. Yet, the literature is sceptical about the extent to which supportive attitudes and behaviour among the actors have been developed. This paper compares unionized workers' reactions towards...

This paper draws on a telephone survey of 1000 workers to explore whether alternative, nonunion forms of representation appear to be filling the gap left by union decline, whether this matters to authority relations at work, and whether it may, indeed, help to explain union decline. It finds...

We draw on a telephone survey of 1,000 American workers to explore whether alternative, non-union forms of representation appear to be filling the gap left by union decline, whether this matters to authority relations at work, and whether it may help to explain union decline. We find that...