Professional employees and union democracy: From control to chaos
Professional employees and union democracy: From control to chaos
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专业员工和工会民主：从控制到混乱
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2000
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R. Hurd
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摘录]许多关于工会民主的研究和几乎所有的新闻报道都集中在组织高层滥用权力。我看的是民主光谱另一端的一个案例。在对一位既定执行董事的叛乱挑战导致他下台后，这个由专业工人组成的小工会爆发了民主的混乱。该组织在过去十年的大部分时间里经历的动荡表明，仅靠有效利用民主进程无法成功解决工会的民主困境，并对自下而上、普通群众的工会转型方法提出了初步质疑。第二节回顾了工会民主和民主困境的相关研究。第三节着眼于专业工人的属性以及对代表他们的工会的影响。第四节总结了创意艺术家联盟的经历，这是一个经历民主危机的真实工会的虚构名称。最后一部分提供了简短的分析并提出了可能的含义。
Excerpt] Much of the research on union democracy and almost all of the press coverage focuses on abuses of power at the top of the organization. I look at a case at the opposite end of the democracy spectrum. After an insurgent challenge to an established executive director toppled him from power, the chaos of democracy was unleashed in this small union of professional workers. The turmoil experienced by this organization for most of the past decade demonstrates that the democracy dilemma in unions cannot be successfully resolved by effective use of the democratic process alone and raises tentative questions about the bottom-up, rank-and-file insurgency approach to union transformation. Section II reviews relevant research on union democracy and the democracy dilemma. Section III looks at attributes of professional workers and the implications for unions that represent them. Section IV summarizes the experiences of the League of Creative Artists, a fictitious name for a real union going through a democracy crisis. The final section offers a brief analysis and suggests possible implications.