Social Integration, Attitudes, and Union Activity

TLDR: In this paper, the authors investigated the factors that motivate union members to participate in union activities, and what differentiates them from less active individuals, based on case studies of three union locals with contrasting kinds of relationships with management.

Abstract: Inducing members to participate in union activities is one of the most difficult tasks confronting local union officers (and, it might be added, leaders of most other membership organizations). Especially is this the case where the impetus of overt union-management conflict is not present. What are the factors that motivate those members who do participate? What differentiates them from less active individuals? This article bases its answer to this question on case studies of three union locals with contrasting kinds of relationships with management. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)