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9780826452146

Unionization and Union Leadership: The Road Haulage Industry

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826452146

  • ISBN10:

    0826452140

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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The focus of this book is the process of unionization in the road haulage industry, in particular, the role of leadership in determining the quality of union organization. It analyzes the early history of road haulage unions, the creation of the TGWU, the failure to organize the industry during the 1930s and the consequent reliance upon statutory regulation of wages and conditions, and the subsequent institutional stasis of the TGWU during the 1950s. The transformation and expansion of union organization during the period of 1963-1973, conceived as the mobilization of collective power by workers within the employment relationship, is explored in case studies of TGWU branches in Birmingham, Liverpool and London, and within the wider context of TGWU. The retrenchment of union organization as a result of recession and Conservative government legislation, 1980-1994, is explored. The book concludes with an assessment of theories of unionization and democracy, and the role of leadership, with reference to thehistorical development of British trade unionism. The research utilizes oral and documentary sources, including hitherto unused archives of the TGWU and the Road Haulage Association.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii
Preface ix
Scope and Structure
1(6)
Theoretical Issues: Trade Unionism and Unionization
7(24)
Industrial Relations and Trade Unionism in the Road Haulage Industry, 1918--53: The Legacy
31(34)
Trade Union and Company Strategies, 1953--78
65(25)
Case Studies in Unionization: London and Liverpool
90(29)
Case Studies in Unionization: The TGWU 5/35 Branch, Birmingham
119(23)
The Hire and Reward Road Haulage Dispute, 1979
142(27)
Exclusion and Disarticulation: The TGWU RTC Group, 1979-98
169(17)
Issues in Unionization
186(18)
Appendix 1: Trade Union Membership 204(2)
Appendix 2: Sources 206(5)
Interviews
208(2)
Unpublished Sources
210(1)
Bibliography 211(10)
Index 221

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