Development Ngos And Labor Unions

Author : Deborah Eade,Alan Leather
Publisher : Practical Action Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106018087053

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Development NGOs and Labor Unions by Deborah Eade,Alan Leather Pdf

* Contains essays from international labor lawyers, trade unionists, NGO campaigners, corporate-watchers, scholars, and activists * Includes perspectives from diverse groups including the Development Policy Centre, Nigeria; the Nike Watch Campaign; Union Aid Abroad; Social Accountability International; Women Working Worldwide; PSI Research Unit; War on Want; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; and the Workers’ Educational Association * Case studies from Iran, the Ukraine, Nigeria, and the South Pacific Dvelopment NGOs and labor unions have much to gain from collaborating in the pursuit of a social justice and rights agenda, yet the two sectors have traditionally tended to operate independently of one another. The "another world is possible" movement; a continuing series of anti-globalization protests; and conflicting views on core labor standards, corporate codes of conduct, and the WTO have placed civil society organizations at the center of public debates on global governance. While NGOs and unions will naturally pursue diverse strategies and tactics, neither sector can afford to go it alone. The essays collected in this volume elucidate some of the underlying tensions between trade unions and NGOs and illustrate the scope for constructive and respectful dialogue -- and potential partnership -- between them.

Author : Henk Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economic development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087519850

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Trade Unions and Development by Henk Thomas Pdf

Author : Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849714648

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Trade Unions in the Green Economy by Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell Pdf

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Together they open up a new area of research: Environmental Labour Studies. The authors ask what kind of environmental policies are unions in different countries and sectors developing. How do they aim to reconcile the protection of jobs with the protection of the environment? What are the forms of cooperation developing between trade unions and environmental movements, especially the so-called Red-Green alliances? Under what conditions are unions striving to create climate change policies that transcend the economic system? Where are they trying to find solutions that they see as possible within the present socio-economic conditions? What are the theoretical and practical implications of trade unions' "Just Transition", and the problems and perspectives of "Green Jobs"? The authors also explore how food workers' rights would contribute to low carbon agriculture, the role workers' identities play in union climate change policies, and the difficulties of creating solidarity between unions across the global North and South. Trade Unions in the Green Economy opens the climate change debate to academics and trade unionists from a range of disciplines in the fields of labour studies, environmental politics, environmental management, and climate change policy. It will also be useful for environmental organisations, trade unions, business, and politicians.

Author : Yenshu Vudo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869783911

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Civil Society and the Search for Development Alternatives in Cameroon by Yenshu Vudo Pdf

This book is a call to reform the framework of civil society and assess its components and roles in shaping the future of Africa.

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073935465

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Trade Union Responses to Globalization by Verena Schmidt Pdf

Bringing together papers from national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides an overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalisation.Globalisation has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom, Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fairer globalisation, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more.It shows how trade unions are a key part in influencing the rules of globalisation to achieve a fairer globalisation, while also playing a role in implementing and enforcing these rules

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9067183555

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Workers and Intellectuals by Michele Ford Pdf

After decades of repression, Indonesia's independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s led by the NGO activists and students who organised industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998 when Suharto's authoritarian regime crumbled and labour NGO activists and their organisations continued to play an influential—and often controversial—part in the reconstruction of the labour movement. Workers and intellectuals explores how middle-class activists struggled to define their place in a movement shaped by more than a century of fierce debate about the role of non-worker intellectuals. Drawing on extensive interviews, this book documents the resurgence of labour activism and explains how activists and workers perceived the position of NGOs in relation to workers and trade unions.

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839104039

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Organizing Matters by Guy Mundlak Pdf

Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.

Author : Alec Fyfe,Michele Jankanish,International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221095142

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Trade Unions and Child Labour by Alec Fyfe,Michele Jankanish,International Labour Office Pdf

This publication sets out a practical framework for specific measures for trade union involvement at the local, national and international levels to protect against the use of child labour, based on the variety of approaches taken by workers' organisations around the world. The book summarises the nature and extent of the child labour problem; gives examples of trade union activities in the campaign against child labour; sets out a framework for action based on these case studies; and examines the international response to child labour.

Author : Bishwapriya Sanyal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016350899

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Cooperative Autonomy by Bishwapriya Sanyal Pdf

Author : John Boli,George M. Thomas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804734224

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Constructing World Culture by John Boli,George M. Thomas Pdf

The contributors contrast this world-polity perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization, including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of international relations, and world-system theory and interstate competition theory in sociology.

Author : Chris King-chi Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415625456

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The Challenge of Labour in China by Chris King-chi Chan Pdf

China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour. In recent years however there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, exploring how the pattern of labour conflict has changed over time.

Author : Enakshi Ganguly Thukral
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000083675

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Every Right for Every Child by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Pdf

Despite some acknowledgement over the years of the significance of seeing children as rights holders, children’s concerns continue to run the risk of not being considered political and mainstream: they continue to be viewed as extensions of adults or simply as members of families and communities. This when the reality is that children are citizens the minute they are born, and entitled to as much attention, if not more than adults, given their age and vulnerability. Concerned with the mainstreaming of children’s interests in policy-making, this book raises such questions as: What is good governance vis-à-vis children? What are the standards and indicators? Can there be one answer for this question that is applicable to all countries? In order to arrive at a better understanding of what good governance for children means and how the realization of the political, cultural, social and civil rights of children may be achieved, the book draws on the diverse and yet comprehensive body of knowledge that has developed over the years from initiatives taken by organisations across the world who work with policy makers to make governance systems more accountable and responsive to the well-being of children as citizens in themselves, simultaneously empowering children to take part in decision-making processes that impact their lives.

Author : Susan L. Kang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812206029

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Human Rights and Labor Solidarity by Susan L. Kang Pdf

Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights as a basis for resistance. Since the protection of human rights remains an important normative principle in global affairs, democratic countries cannot merely ignore their human rights obligations and must balance their international commitments with their desire to remain economically competitive and attractive to investors. Human Rights and Labor Solidarity analyzes trade unions' campaigns to link local labor rights disputes to international human rights frameworks, thereby creating external scrutiny of governments. As a result of these campaigns, states engage in what political scientist Susan L. Kang terms a normative negotiation process, in which governments, trade unions, and international organizations construct and challenge a broader understanding of international labor rights norms to determine whether the conditions underlying these disputes constitute human rights violations. In three empirically rich case studies covering South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Canada, Kang demonstrates that this normative negotiation process was more successful in creating stronger protections for trade unions' rights when such changes complemented a government's other political interests. She finds that states tend not to respect stronger economically oriented human rights obligations due to the normative power of such rights alone. Instead, trade union transnational activism, coupled with sufficient political motivations, such as direct economic costs or strong rule of law obligations, contributed to changes in favor of workers' rights.

Author : Lijun Yang,Wei Shan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814618601

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Governing Society in Contemporary China by Lijun Yang,Wei Shan Pdf

This book examines how the Chinese state responds to the increasingly diverse civil society and maintains regime stability in a changing society. In recent years, the Chinese leadership has demonstrated great capability of adapting and developing sophisticated mechanisms of social control. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of these mechanisms, including co-opting social forces, managing population and migration, as well as controlling the media, trade unions, the internet, non-governmental organisations, and the cultural industries. The authors also discuss challenges the government is about to face and possible adjustments.

Author : J. Steffek,C. Kissling,P. Nanz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230592506

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Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance by J. Steffek,C. Kissling,P. Nanz Pdf

It is often argued that the enhanced consultation of civil society contributes to the democratization of European and global governance. This collection investigates whether this theoretical argument is supported by empirical evidence. Ten original essays analyze current patterns of civil society consultation in 32 intergovernmental organizations.