Abstract

REGO, Raquel; ALVES, Paulo Marques; SILVA, Jorge  and  NAUMANN, Reinhard. The websites of Portuguese trade unions: surfing for rights?. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2013, n.73, pp.93-110. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2013732809.

Studies on industrial relations in Portugal have not paid much attention to the role of the latest information and communication technologies. In seeking to help fill this gap, this article characterises the use of the Internet by Portuguese trade unions, by presenting a typology of their websites and determining whether there are statistically significant associations between that typology and each union’s membership of the main national confederations. The authors base themselves on the principle that the fragmented nature of the trade union structure in Portugal leads to different communication strategies. The conclusion sets out a number of hypotheses that may help explain the results of the present study.

Keywords : trade unions; Internet; typology; Portugal.

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