Bryson, Alex;
Willman, Paul;
(2022)
How should we think about employers’ associations?
British Journal of Industrial Relations
10.1111/bjir.12722.
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Abstract
We maintain that employer associations are a specific form of employer collusion that is overt, formal and labour market-focused which encompasses but is by no means confined to collective bargaining. We consider the conditions under which this form of collusion might emerge, and how it might develop. Since the context is the decline of employers’ associations in collective bargaining, we look at how collective bargaining involvement (and its disappearance) might relate to the growth or decline of other forms of collusion in areas such as product and financial markets, and political influence. Our central contention is that employers’ associations continue to perform an important role in helping employers set the terms of trade, albeit one that has adapted to the demise of sectoral bargaining.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How should we think about employers’ associations? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjir.12722 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12722 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. British Journal of Industrial Relations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160454 |
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