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Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry

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  • Andrew Cumbers

    (University of Glasgow)

  • Danny MacKinnon

    (University of Glasgow)

  • Jon Shaw

    (University of Plymouth)

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Researchers are becoming more alert to the importance of geography to union renewal in counteracting the strategies of corporate and state actors. In this article the example of the UK's rail industry is used to show how privatisation created a new geography of employment relations. Unions responded to the destruction of national collective bargaining and a new fragmented geography of employment relations through organisational restructuring, which, in different ways, was marked by a continuing commitment to a politics of production in connecting grassroots workers to national leaderships. Engaging with the new labour geography, however; the article argues that a further critical element in renewal has been the unions' ability to rethink their internal geographies and scalar relations to contest change at the level of the workplace.

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  • Andrew Cumbers & Danny MacKinnon & Jon Shaw, 2010. "Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 24(1), pages 127-144, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:24:y:2010:i:1:p:127-144
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