Major Labor Disputes in Britain, 1902-1938
The Relationship Between Resource Expenditure and Outcome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5249447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C C Ragin (0000-0001-7931-5408), Shelley Coverman, Mark Hayward (0000-0002-7586-7747) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 238 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2094966 |
| OpenAlex | W2322598633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
While there have been many studies of the frequency of strikes, only a few researchers (e.g., Snyder and Kelly, 1976) have studied strike outcomes. This topic has been ignored partly because the dominant perspective in the study of industrial conflict, the resource mobilization perspective, treats strikes as acts that contribute primarily to workers' long-term political interests. We argue that strikes are at least as much acts of economic instrumentalist as they are political acts and that the resource mobilization perspective should address strike outcomes. In this study of the relationship between resource expenditure and strike outcomes, we pay special attention to the way change in the status of a contender' (Tilly, 1978) affects the relationship between resource expenditure and outcome. Our analysis of the outcomes of 753 major labor disputes in Britain over the 1902 to 1938 period shows that labor's change from challenger to member status improved its returns to collective action
Collective action · Demographic economics · Economics · Management · Microeconomics · Outcome (game theory · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Employment and Welfare Studies · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Pitting the Working Class against Itself
American Labor Law
Legitimacy and Collective Action
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
A threat to protest as a winning strategy for the labour movement
Mobilization and Participation
Red unions and bourgeois democracy
Estimation and hypothesis testing for seemingly unrelated regressions
The strategy of social protest
The Theory of Wages
The Logic of Collective Action
Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
Mobilization and Organization
Institutional Setting and Industrial Conflict
Changing Patterns of Industrial Conflict
Strikes
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |