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- Title
Spheres of collectivism: Group action and perspectives on trade unions among the low-paid unorganized with problems at work.
- Authors
PoIIert, Anna
- Abstract
Drawing on a 2004 survey of 501 low-paid, non-unionized workers with problems at work, this paper explores the types of difficulties encountered and responses to these, including expressions of collectivism. It finds that not only did most workers take action to resolve their problems, but a quarter did so collectively. However, such spontaneous collectivism did not develop into effective mobilization of power. The paper also explores workers' views on trade unions. While most workers were broadly pro-union, this was no more likely among those who attempted collective resolutions than it was among others. The relationship between collectivism in consciousness, and action and positive attitudes to union representation, remains as complex a problem among today's unorganized workers as ethnographic studies demonstrated several decades ago.
- Subjects
SOCIAL action; NONUNION employees; LABOR union recognition; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis; SOCIAL movements; SOCIAL processes; SOCIALISM; PERSONNEL management; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology)
- Publication
Capital & Class, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0309-8168
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0309816809353496