New trade union activism
Subtitle: class consciousness or social identity?
By: Sian Moore
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230244115
Subjects: Shop stewards; Industrial relations; Labor unions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index.

"The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness."--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Identity and consciousness: An unstable relationship?; title: Structure and agency: The dynamics of workplace activism; title: The role of activists in collective mobilisation: Statutory recognition ballots; title: Agents of neoliberalism? : The contested role of the ULR; title: From self-organisation to equality? The emergence of equality reps; title: Legacies of self-organisation? Migrant worker activists; title: The ideological dimensions of activism: Excavating class?; title: Conclusions.