In recent years, there has been an acute crisis of worker representation
in the finance sector in Britain. Labour union and staff association
membership and density has fallen, collective organisation has
experienced dislocation and disorganisation and worker self-confidence
has been sapped. Prior to this, there was a sense of an identifiable
trajectory towards greater 'unionateness' by labour unions and staff
associations, with the sector moving towards growing self-identification
of employees as 'workers' and the use of traditional tools of collective
bargaining such as threats of strikes and strikes themselves. This study
documents and explains these changes in wider historical terms,
providing invaluable reading for those interested in the future of both
the labour movement and the finance sector.