1st Edition

Unionization and Union Leadership The Road Haulage Industry

By Paul Smith Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Scope and Structure; Chapter 2 Theoretical Issues; Chapter 3 Industrial Relations and Trade Unionism in the Road Haulage Industry, 1918–53; Chapter 4 Trade Union and Company Strategies, 1953–78; Chapter 5 Case Studies in Unionization; Chapter 6 Case Studies in Unionization; Chapter 7 The Hire and Reward Road Haulage Dispute, 1979; Chapter 8 Exclusion and Disarticulation; Chapter 9 Issues in Unionization;

Biography

Paul Smith