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INDUSTRIAL CITIZENSHIP IN BRITAIN: ITS NEGLECT AND DECLINE
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INDUSTRIAL CITIZENSHIP IN BRITAIN: ITS NEGLECT AND DECLINE Introduction In recent debates about struggles around globalisation the issue of workers rights has been central, however, the conceptualisation of workers' rights has been neglected.i The discussion of rights raises the idea of citizenship, and for workers, the question of industrial citizenship. The concept of industrial citizenship was introduced by T. H. Marshall in his famous account of the relationship between citizenship and social class, originally developed around 1950.ii Citizenship in general refers to the equal membership of a national societal community, where those individual citizens are theoretically guaranteed equal rights of speech, association, etc., and equal rights of political participation. Industrial citizenship is where employees have the right to form and join unions and to engage in actions such as strikes in pursuit of higher wages and better conditions of employment.iii Industrial citizenship, then, is not to be equated with ideas of industrial...
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