Control by the Membership in Building Trades Unions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2204231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Strau, George Strauss (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 527-535 |
| Publication date | 1956-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/221845 |
| OpenAlex | W2074876988 |
| Language | EN |
The behavior of the business agent, because he controls jobs, signalizes the extent of democratic control in the building trades locals in a city of 400,000.The power of the rank and file in the locals, demonstrated in matters like attendance at meetings and turnover of officers, increases at the expense of theagent in times of conflict with employers. Further limits of the agent's power come from the international and the public. Moreover, the samallness of the locals studied made for a "shop society" which protected members' rights
Attendance · Business · Control (management) · Democracy · Economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public relations · Rank (graph theory) · Law · Management, Economics, and Public Policy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |