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The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations provides a systematic, comprehensive survey of the field. The result is a work of unprecedented scope and unparalleled ambition. It offers a compete guide to the central debates, new developments, and emerging themes in the field. It will quickly be recognized as the indispensable reference for teachers, students and researchers. It is relevant to economists, lawyers, sociologists, business and management researchers, and Industrial Relations specialists.
Trade Union Morphology
Trade Union Morphology
Morphology (dfn): Any scientific study of form and structure. From Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1984.
morphology [mawr-fol-uh-jee]-noun; the study of the form or structure of anything [Origin: 1820–30; MORPHO- + -LOGY; first formed in G. http://Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.01) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Scope
Union structure traditionally connotes external (or horizontal) and internal (or vertical) dimensions (Fiorito et al., 1991). External structure refers to the scope of membership, boundaries in terms of membership criteria and patterns distinguishing one union from another, etc. Internal structure refers to two sub-dimensions, governance (or representation) and administration. In addition to external and internal structure, this chapter considers the nature or ‘soul’ (Budd, 2004: 137–57) of union ...
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