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Organizing the Next Generation: Influences on Young Workers’ Willingness to Join Unions in Canada

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  • Graham Lowe
  • Sandra Rastin

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This paper argues that union attitudes and behaviour are important but neglected features of the school–work transition process. Using longitudinal panel data from a study of high school and university graduates in three Canadian cities, we examine how young people’s previous union membership, attitudes and educational, labour market and workplace experiences shape their willingness to join unions. This paper establishes that views about unions are emergent during youth, solidifying with age and experience. The implications of these findings for industrial relations, school–work transitions research and labour movement organizing are discussed.

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  • Graham Lowe & Sandra Rastin, 2000. "Organizing the Next Generation: Influences on Young Workers’ Willingness to Join Unions in Canada," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 38(2), pages 203-222, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:38:y:2000:i:2:p:203-222
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00159
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    1. Rachel Aleks & Tina Saksida & Aaron S. Wolf, 2021. "Hero or Villain? A Cohort and Generational Analysis of How Youth Attitudes Towards Unions Have Changed over Time," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 59(2), pages 532-567, June.
    2. John Godard, 2011. "Uncertainty and the Correlates of Union Voting Propensity: An Organizing Perspective," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(3), pages 472-496, July.
    3. Glynne Williams & Martin Quinn, 2014. "Macmillan's children? Young workers and trade unions in the early 1960s," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(2), pages 137-152, March.
    4. Alex Bryson & Rhys Davies, 2019. "Family, Place and the Intergenerational Transmission of Union Membership," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 57(3), pages 624-650, September.
    5. Jane Holgate & Gabriella Alberti & Iona Byford & Ian Greenwood, 2021. "Trade union community membership: exploring what people who are not in paid employment could contribute to union activism," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 27(4), pages 469-483, November.
    6. Peter Gahan & Andreas Pekarek, 2013. "Social Movement Theory, Collective Action Frames and Union Theory: A Critique and Extension," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 51(4), pages 754-776, December.
    7. Jonathan E. Booth & John W. Budd & Kristen M. Munday, 2010. "First-Timers and Late-Bloomers: Youth—Adult Unionization Differences in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 64(1), pages 53-73, October.
    8. Kurt Vandaele, 2013. "Union responses to young workers since the Great Recession in Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden: are youth structures reorienting the union agenda? 1," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 19(3), pages 381-397, August.

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