The Fall and Rise of Organising in a Blue-Collar Union

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-52

  Griffin, Gerard ^a   Moors, Rosetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992805603     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-1856.2004.00127.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) (1993) Summary Report. United States Mission on Recruitment and Organisation. Melbourne: ACTU
2. Bramble T (2001) Australian union strategies since 1945. Labour & Industry 11(3), 1-20.
3. Bronfenbrenner K, Friedman S, Hurd R, Oswald A, Seeber R, eds (1998) Organizing To Win,! New Research on Union Strategies. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.
4. Bronfenbrenner K, Juravich T (1998) It takes more than house calls: Organising to win with a comprehensive union-building strategy. In: Bronfenbrenner K, Friedman S, Hurd R, Oswald A, Seeber R, eds, Organizing To Win, New Research on Union Strategies, pp. 19-36. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.
5. Clark PF (2000) Building More Effective Unions. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.
6. Cooper R, Walton C (1996) Organising and recruitment in Australia: The response of unions to the membership crisis. Paper presented at the AFL-CIO and ILR School, Organising for Success Conference, July, Cornell University, USA.
7. Cooper R (2001) Getting organised? A white collar union response to membership crisis. Journal of Industrial Relations 43(4), 422-437.
8. Fiorito J, Jarley P, Thomas Delaney J (1995) National union effectiveness in organizing: Measures and influences. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48(4), 613-635.
9. Fletcher B, Hurd R (1998) Beyond the organizing model: The transformation process in local unions. In: Bronfenbrenner K, Friedman S, Hurd R, Oswald A, Seeber R, eds, Organizing To Win, New Research on Union Strategies, pp. 37-53. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.
10. Gapasin F, Yates M (1998) Organizing the unorganized: Will promises become practices? In: Wood EM, Meiksins P, Yates M, eds, Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of “Global Capitalism”, New York: Monthly Review Press.
11. Gahan P, Bell S (1999) Union strategy, membership orientation and union effectiveness: An exploratory analysis. Labour & Industry, 9 (3), 5-22.
12. Grabelsky J, Hurd R (1994) Reinventing an organizing union: Strategies for change. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 3-6 January, Madison Wisconsin, USA.
13. Heery E (2002) Partnership versus organising: Alternative futures for British trade unionism. Industrial Relations Journal 33(1), 20-32.
14. Macdonald D, Strachan G, Houston L (1998) Unionism in the Hunter Valley: an exploratory regional study. Labour & Industry 8(3), 115-131.
15. Oxenbridge S (1997) Organizing strategies and organizing reform in New Zealand service sector unions. Labor Studies Journal 22(3), 3-28.
16. Pocock B (1998) Institutional sclerosis: Prospects for trade union transformation. Labour & Industry 9(1), 17-36.
17. Sherman R, Voss K (2000) Organize or die: Labor's new tactics and immigrant workers. In: Milkman R, ed, Organizing Immigrants, the Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California, pp. 81-108. Ithica, USA: Cornell University Press.
18. Tillman RM, Cummings MS (1999) The Transformation of U.S. Unions: Voices, Visions and Strategies from the Grassroots. New York: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
19. Voss K, Sherman R (2003) You just can't do it automatically: The transition to social movement unionism in the United States. In: Fairbrother P, Yates C, eds, Trade Union in Renewal: A Comparative Study, pp. 51-78. London: Continuum.
20. Widenor M, Feekin L (2001) Organizer training in two hemispheres: The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and the Australian Council of Trade Union's Organising Works. Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon: Mimeo.
21. Yates C (2000) Staying the decline in union membership: Union organizing in Ontario, 1985-1999. Relations Industrielles 55(4), 640-671.
22. Yates C (2002) Expanding labour's horizons: Union organizing and strategic change in Canada. Just Labour 1, 31-40.