TY - BOOK AU - Bryson,Alex AU - Forth,John AU - Laroche,Patrice TI - Evolution or revolution?: the impact of unions on workplace performance in Britain and France SN - 09596801 AV - HD8371 EUR PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Sage KW - Collective bargaining KW - Union membership KW - United Kingdom KW - France N2 - We use nationally representative workplace surveys to examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in both countries. However, in Britain the effect is confined to the declining proportion of unionized workplaces where there is active collective bargaining. In the French case, the effect is confined to the minority of cases where unions have high density and to unions with a reputation for militancy UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680111400907 ER -