We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by … non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among … employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow rate, that accounts for this decline. We show how union decline is …

councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union … organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee …

This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse …

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

part charts the six major pieces of legislation – conventionally described as ?anti-union? – that were enacted by … even if they do imply an increase in union membership and rising costs for business. For evidence of more profound change … one has to turn to the third part of our story: the social policy agenda of the European Union. Almost immediately upon …

. -- Union recognition ; union coverage ; worker representation in works councils/joint consultative committees ; patterns of …

In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries … which restrict free-riding on union services. The impact of social custom effects tends to be independent of union density …