Abstract
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (the ‘Lobbying Act’) imposes tight restrictions on the campaigning and lobbying activities of civil society organisations in the UK, diminishing their capacity to represent the interests of working people and thus likely compounding the ‘representation gap’ within British workplaces. Along with austerity measures and employment law reforms, the legislation exemplifies the UK government's attempts to shift the balance of power further towards employers.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 507-523 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Industrial Relations Journal |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2014 |
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- WILLIAMS_2014_cright_IRJ_Widening the respresentation gap
This is the accepted version of the following article: Widening the ‘representation gap’? The implications of the ‘lobbying act’ for worker representation in the UK, (2014), Industrial Relations Journal, 45(6), pp. 507-523, ISSN: 0019-8692, DOI: 10.1111/irj.12076, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irj.12076/pdf.