Resisting the Rise of Non-unionism: the Case of the Press Workers in the Newspaper Industry
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Capital & Class
- Vol. 22 (1) , 43-61
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030981689806400105
Abstract
This article considers the experience of press workers in the newspaper industry in Britain to examine how workers can rebuild their collective organisations to resist and supplant the increasing prevalence of non-unionism. Taking the press workers at Wapping firstly and then press workers in general, the re-composition of the labour process is considered to show that new spaces and opportunities for worker resistance are continually provided even within inhospitable environments. As such workers' power is socially constructed and mobilised rather than technologically determined.Keywords
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