Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 21 Issue 4

Coalitions and community unionism: Using the term community to explore effective union‐community collaboration

Union‐community collaboration is an increasingly common practice in industrialised nations where union power and density have declined. This paper proposes a framework for…

Contested communities: geo‐histories of unionism

Despite being increasingly touted as the kind of fundamental transformation needed for union survival, “community unionism” is typically ill‐defined and poorly explained. This…

Having a voice: the quest for democratic policing in Southern Africa

Efforts by police organisations to unionise and to increase their social and labour rights is an international phenomenon, and one that is becoming more vigorous in the Southern…

Worker identity, the liability of foreignness, the exclusion of local managers and unionism: A conceptual analysis

This paper aims to analyse the concept of worker identity and the liability of foreignness caused by over‐reliance on expatriate managers and under‐reliance on local managers, and…

Revitalising the trade union movement through internationalism: The grassroots perspective

This paper aims to present an exploration of grassroots perspectives on trade union methods of organisational change management through internationalism. A case study of UNISON…

Inter‐ethnic and labour‐community coalitions in class struggle in Taiwan since the advent of temporary immigration

This paper aims to analyse the class dimensions of racism in Taiwan against temporary migrant workers and migrants' efforts to build inter‐ethnic and labour‐community coalitions…

Community as a factor in union organization

There is now considerable evidence that “community unionism” is emerging as a new form of worker organization in many quite different national contexts. This paper aims to look at…

Democratic reason and practice: repositioning community aspirations

This paper seeks to complement the work on community unionism by arguing criticality is the core human capacity required to convey and share experiences of community.

Special issue on movements of transition twenty years on: identities, ideologies, imaginary institutions

Worker identity, social isolation and absence of community