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Family, Place and the Intergenerational Transmission of Union Membership

Bryson, AJ; Davies, R; (2019) Family, Place and the Intergenerational Transmission of Union Membership. British Journal of Industrial Relations , 57 (3) pp. 624-650. 10.1111/bjir.12435. Green open access

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Abstract

This article examines the importance of family, gender and place to the intergenerational transmission of trade union membership. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we show that union membership among parents influences the union joining behaviour of young workers. These effects are particularly apparent among daughters and where both parents are members of unions. The effects of parental membership are also stronger among those born in areas characterized by relatively high levels of union density. Parental effects are therefore important to our understanding of the persistence of regional variations in levels of trade union membership.

Type: Article
Title: Family, Place and the Intergenerational Transmission of Union Membership
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12435
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12435
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2018 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 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: union membership, inter-generational transmission, regional variance
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.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057336
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