Abstract
Is there a difference between manual and white-collar unions? And if so: What are the bases for especially white-collar unions if they differ to a great extent in collectivist attitudes or with regard to 'untonateness' from their manual counterparts? These are the central questions raised in the recent literature about white-collar unionism (e.g. Price 1983). In this research note, the author argues that for unions in Denmark, professionalism is a very important part of union strategy. most notably among the major part of the white-collar unions On the basis of interviews with union officials and a survey, the author is able to show that professionahsm is a very active strategy within some unions in Denmark, and that it is especially active (and successful) where the occupation of the membership is linked to formal education.
The empincal evidence is not given here, but in the author's book (Scheuer 1986), on which the following is based
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