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Managing Membership Decline in a Hostile Environment: The Case of the Print Unions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
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Abstract
This article examines printing trade unions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Since 1990 they have been under major pressure from financial difficulties resulting from a dramatic fall in membership. This, in turn, stemmed from the hostile environment of privatization, corporate mergers an... view more
This article examines printing trade unions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Since 1990 they have been under major pressure from financial difficulties resulting from a dramatic fall in membership. This, in turn, stemmed from the hostile environment of privatization, corporate mergers and acquisitions, technological change and anti-trade union policies on the part of some employers. To reduce costs and ensure institutional survival, and potentially revival, the leaderships of the three unions have implemented strategies to redefine union objectives, the means of their achievement and the procedures of union democracy. Modernization is, however, constrained by their unions' decision-making structures, cultures, resources and their own ideologies.... view less
Free Keywords
membership decline; political, democratic and administrative rationalities; strategy;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 89-108
Journal
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 13 (2007) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680107073969
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)