Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: unions in the 1980s
- 2 The financial status of British trade unions 1950–1989
- 3 Financial differences between unions
- 4 The role of financial matters in union organisation
- 5 The politics of union finaces
- 6 Union size, growth, and financial performance
- 7 Strike activity and union finances
- 8 The National Union of Mineworkers: strikes and financial disaster
- 9 The GMB: merger and financial reform
- 10 The Amalgamated Engineering Union: back from the brink
- 11 The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union: competitive unionism and financial survival
- 12 The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Trade Union: accountability and financial control
- 13 Conclusions: union business and business unionism
- Appendix 1 Research methods
- Appendix 2 Regression results
- Appendix 3 Questions for finance officers
- Appendix 4 Questions for General Secretaries
- Appendix 5 Questionnaire: trade union finances
- Appendix 6 The number of trade unions
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Index of trade unions
- Author index
Appendix 2 - Regression results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: unions in the 1980s
- 2 The financial status of British trade unions 1950–1989
- 3 Financial differences between unions
- 4 The role of financial matters in union organisation
- 5 The politics of union finaces
- 6 Union size, growth, and financial performance
- 7 Strike activity and union finances
- 8 The National Union of Mineworkers: strikes and financial disaster
- 9 The GMB: merger and financial reform
- 10 The Amalgamated Engineering Union: back from the brink
- 11 The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union: competitive unionism and financial survival
- 12 The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Trade Union: accountability and financial control
- 13 Conclusions: union business and business unionism
- Appendix 1 Research methods
- Appendix 2 Regression results
- Appendix 3 Questions for finance officers
- Appendix 4 Questions for General Secretaries
- Appendix 5 Questionnaire: trade union finances
- Appendix 6 The number of trade unions
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Index of trade unions
- Author index
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- Union BusinessTrade Union Organisation and Financial Reform in the Thatcher Years, pp. 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993