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Article Excerpt
edited by Peter FAIRBROTHER and Gerard GRIFFIN, London, New York: Continuum, 2002, 263 pp., ISBN: 0-8264-5811-4.
This collection of essays on six English-speaking countries, Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA, provides perceptive views of the labour movements in these countries as they are struggling to survive in a time of "profound change." As the editors say, the book outlines and analyzes "how trade unions have responded to the problems confronting them" in very challenging times. Overall, the conclusions of both the chapter authors and the editors are quite pessimistic as to the future of these labour movements.
The method of this book is to have one or two experts on each country analyze that country's experience along a set of common general dimensions. There is no express agreed-upon theoretical framework, but only a set of general topics to which each chapter speaks. This has the advantage of permitting rich descriptions of the national realities, but the disadvantage of leaving one without any basis for generalizing beyond these countries.
The concluding chapter written by the editors well summarizes the findings of the various chapters. On the crucial question of union membership, we see that there was a decline in...
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