%0 Journal Article
%T The decline of Employers¡¯ Associations in the UK, 1976¨C2014
%A Edmund Heery
%A Leon Gooberman
%A Marco Hauptmeier
%J Journal of Industrial Relations
%@ 1472-9296
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0022185617750418
%X This article examines the collective, member-based employers¡¯ associations in the UK that regulate the employment relationship by participating in collective bargaining. The main empirical contribution is to provide, for the first time, a longitudinal dataset of employers¡¯ associations in the UK. We use archival data from the UK Government¡¯s Certification Office to build a new dataset, identifying a decline of 81% in the number of employers¡¯ associations between 1976 and 2013¨C2014. We also find that political agency and reducing levels of collective bargaining undermined employers¡¯ associations by reducing employers¡¯ incentives to associate, although changes within the UK¡¯s system of employment relations enabled other types of collective employer organisation to survive
%K Collective action
%K collective bargaining
%K economic governance
%K employers¡¯ associations
%K employment relations
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022185617750418