You are invited to the book launch of
Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing
By Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery
Published by Cornell University Press
Tuesday 22 January 2013from 6pm-8pm
TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS.
If you want to come along please register here:
http://unionvoices.eventbrite.co.uk/
There will be a number of commentators who will say a few words about
the book and the state of union organizing in the UK:
Sharon Graham, Director of Organising, Unite the union
Paul Nowak, Head of the Organisation and Services Department
John Kelly, Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck College
Wilf Sullivan, TUC Race Relations officer
Martin Smith, national organizer director GMB
John Page, Assistant General Secretary of TSSA
Followed by wine, beer and nibbles (very kindly supplied by the Centre
for Employment Innovation and Change at the University of Leeds) and
chance to talk to the authors and others in attendance.
In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three
industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the
political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New
Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on
extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund
Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing means in the UK,
how it emerged, and what its impact has been. Although the supportive
legislation of the New Labour government led to considerable optimism in
the late 1990s about the prospects for renewal, Simms, Holgate, and
Heery argue that despite considerable evidence of investment, new
practices, and innovation, UK unions have largely failed to see any
significant change in their membership and influence.
BOOK AVAILABLE FROM
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100825300
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Dr Jane Holgate
Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
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Mobile: 07960 798399
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Dr Jane Holgate
Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
email: [log in to unmask]
Mobile: 07960 798399
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