ABSTRACT
Union membership: Producing worker identity and agency Data reported in Chapter 7 show that human agency demands a priori the internal and personal resources of self-confi dence, self-esteem and self-respect. Individuals who are confi dent, value themselves, and experience public respect
and recognition, report an increase in their ability to interpret their world, evaluate their experience, plan and implement a response in an ongoing and refl exive manner. This is also reported to be true for the collective.
