Title: The Institutional and Societal Context: Britain, Australia and the United States
Abstract: From the 1970s to the 1990s important developments occurred in the institutions and social, political and economic spheres in Britain and the United States that would enable employers to institute workplace reorganisation in the newspaper industry at the expense of union power. Both Britain and the United States have histories of strong union movements in the newspaper industry, however, by the end of the 1980s those unions had been severely weakened. At the same time, extensive reorganisation also occurred in the Australian newspaper industry, and yet unions continued to have a voice in negotiations over workplace reform. This chapter asks what occurred in the institutional and societal contexts of Britain and die United States for newspaper management to emerge into the 1990s in a position where they could operate almost independently of unions. And why did workplace reorganisation follow a different path in Australia?
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-02-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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