Book review : Organizing Matters: Two Logics of Trade Union Representation

Without a doubt, organising is one of the most important issues facing trade unions (Loach, 2000). This is the principal topic of Guy Mundlak’s Organising Matters. Mundlak’s book also represents one of the most successful applications of a brilliant essay about trade unions, Offe and Wiesenthal’s ‘Two logics of collective action: theoretical notes on social class and organisational form’ (1980). This is reflected in the book’s subtitle, Two Logics of Trade Union Representation. The key argument is that there are two logics of collective action, one for labour and trade unions and one for capital.