The trade union response to agency labour in Britain

Heery, Edmund James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3914-7635 2004. The trade union response to agency labour in Britain. Industrial Relations Journal 35 (5) , pp. 434-450. 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2004.00325.x

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Abstract

The growth of agency work in recent years has posed a challenge to trade unions, which must decide if they will accept agency workers as part of their constituency and accept employment agencies as legitimate labour-market actors. This article analyses the reaction of British unions to agency work and identifies four main responses: exclusion, replacement, regulation and engagement. It concludes with an evaluation of union policies, which stresses the need for unions to secure broad regulation of the agency labour market either through multi-employer bargaining or employment law.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Publisher:	Wiley Blackwell
ISSN:	0019-8692
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 09:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42522

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