The growth of service employment and new forms of work has supposedly fostered the diffusion of individual orientations at the expense of traditional forms of union solidarity. These developments suggest that academics are likely to manifest an individualist orientation and a weak attachment to...

This article presents and explores a model of union participation using union orientation as a segmenting criterion. Union orientation is shown to have a strong relationship with participation rates. The relationship between union segmentation, social networks, and political socialization is...

Purpose: The link between human resource practices and earnings for workers is a notable research lacuna and the purpose of this paper is to address this relationship using a matched data set covering all employees and employers in the Irish private sector. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Immigrant workers are increasingly essential to the EU economy as Europe's population continues to decline. In Ireland there has been an influx of approximately 250,000 migrants into the country since 1997. Using a recent survey of citizens in the European Union the attitudes of Irish workers...

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to examine the propensity of recent immigrants to join Irish trade unions compared to Irish workers. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on the 2005 Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), a quarterly survey carried out by the Central...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the recruiting and organising methods used by Irish full‐time union officials to recruit new members in the private sector of the economy. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on a survey of full‐time union officials in eight Irish...