This paper argues that the `servicing relationship' between trade unions and their members has passed through three phases in the postwar period. These are termed `professional unionism', characterized by membership dependence on a cadre of expert representatives; `participative unionism', in...

The article presents information on the extent and distribution of women's employment in full-time officer posts within British trade unions, and on the priorities and objectives of those ten per cent of full-time bargainers in the British labour movement who are women. The main concern of the...