A structural events approach to examining long-term change in the Australian trade union movement, 1969-1996
Hose, Kerrie 2003, A structural events approach to examining long-term change in the Australian trade union movement, 1969-1996, in Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia, The : Reflections : New Directions, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 1-10.
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia, The : Reflections : New Directions
Editor(s)
Teicher, Julian
Publication date
2003
Start page
1
End page
10
Publisher
Monash University
Place of publication
Melbourne, Vic.
Summary
Traditional studies of long-term change in trade union structure have predominantly focused on aggregate trends in union merger activity, in constructing explanations of change. This paper argues that our understanding of structural change in the Australian trade union movement would be better served by a structural events approach that examines the incidence of union formations, dissolutions, and breakaways, in addition to that of union mergers. In doing so, it outlines how these structural events can be identified and measured, and presents the preliminary findings from the methods application.
ISBN
0732622425 9780732622428
Language
eng
Field of Research
150306 Industrial Relations
HERDC Research category
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Persistent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005167
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