Globalization And Third World Trade Unions

Author : Henk Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034524473

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Globalization and Third World Trade Unions by Henk Thomas Pdf

This study is the outcome of a series of investigations into the deep crisis in which the organized labour movement in the South finds itself as a result of changes in the global economy. The regional overviews and illustrative case studies from Asia, Latin America and Africa show how trade unions currently face a variety of difficult challenges. These include new management methods, the growing influence of the informal sector and casualization of labour, and the ever-growing participation of women workers who are not currently represented adaquately by trade unions. The volume concludes with an exploration of possible strategies for the future.

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Henk Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8186816038

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Globalization And Third World Trade Unions by Henk Thomas Pdf

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842770713

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Globalisation and Labour by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

Intellectual fashion currently focuses on us as consumers, but the world of production and services still needs us as workers. While globalisation has, in part, been driven over the past two decades by the transnational corporations' search for cheap labour in new regions of the South, scholarly research and the mass media have paid remarkably little attention to the consequent changes that are happening in the world of work. This book is the first to deal comprehensively and analytically with labour's response to globalisation. It provides a critical overview of the main challenges facing workers and trade unions worldwide. Its author argues that what may be described as the national period in labour history is decisively over. Now the labour movement is itself acting increasingly in a transnational manner. This holds out the hope of its playing a major role in the social regulation of a global economic system which is largely out of control. The author explains how globalisation is foisting flexibilisation and feminisation on working people, but in the process also making them conscious of their transnational links. The 'old' internationalism of the trade union movement is now showing signs of developing into a 'new' internationalism where workers develop a sense of common interest and new ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Drawing his evidence from what is happening to workers and trade unions in a wide range of countries in both the industrialized North and the developing South, Professor Ronaldo Munck suggests that we may be on the brink of a new version of what Karl Polanyi, many years ago, strikingly called 'the great transformation'. The implications for workers, trade unions and their transnational corporate employers could be profound.

Author : Tony Pilch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556038737854

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Trades Unions and Globalisation by Tony Pilch Pdf

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0853238170

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Labour and Globalisation by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

It is often assumed that social movements, such as that of labour, will simply be overwhelmed by the changes brought about by globalisation. This volume points to this conclusion as at best premature and possibly also misguided.

Author : Gerda van Roozendaal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135842734

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Trade Unions and Global Governance by Gerda van Roozendaal Pdf

As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what makes such organizations successful on an international level. The focus is on trade unions, as a key international group of NGOs. It asks whether a global system can be designed to stimulate countries to observe a set of minimum or core standards. It explores three important questions: how have unions attempted to influence the debate on the inclusion of minumum labour standards in the WTO agreement?; what accounts for their success or lack of success?; and what conclusions, with respect to the effective behaviour of trade unions in the construction of international policy, can be drawn from these experiences? In exploring these questions the text looks at social clause debates within a number of international bodies: the ILO, OECD and the EU, and within two countries: the USA and India.

Author : Susan Hayter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849809832

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The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy by Susan Hayter Pdf

The book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today.s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labourstandards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positivecontribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerouschallenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity and working time.

Author : Jeffrey Harrod,Robert O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780203402948

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Global Unions? by Jeffrey Harrod,Robert O'Brien Pdf

This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalization and this book analyzes the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level.

Author : Alwyn Didar Singh,Kwasi Anyemedu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic commerce
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092614720

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Trade Union Responses to Globalization by Alwyn Didar Singh,Kwasi Anyemedu Pdf

Analyses the response of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to the challenges posed by structural adjustment programmes introduced since 1983. Reviews the attempts made by the TUC to influence economic policy through a critique of some of the reform measures and also by participating in the implementation of specific policies.

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013905685

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Trade Unions and the New Industrialization of the Third World by Roger Southall Pdf

Author : Jürgen Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112065433887

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The Solidarity Dilemma by Jürgen Hoffman Pdf

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Christian Lévesque,Marc-Antonin Hennebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136681844

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Transnational Trade Unionism by Peter Fairbrother,Christian Lévesque,Marc-Antonin Hennebert Pdf

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues. Through the work of leading international specialists, this collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of transnational trade union action and provides analytical and conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments in transition and developing countries with original analyses from the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of institution building and challenges the conventional national based forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Author : Robert Kyloh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Flextime
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092375744

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Mastering the Challenge of Globalization by Robert Kyloh Pdf

Comprises two articles dealing with several aspects of the international trade union agenda which are being developed in response to the challenge of globalization. Explains and elaborates policies and position papers adopted by various international trade union centres, as well as arguments raised by representatives of the trade union movement in debates about globalization labour standards and full employment. Includes annexes.

Author : World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization,International Labour Organisation
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221154262

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A Fair Globalization by World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization,International Labour Organisation Pdf

This report has been compiled by the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization, an independent body established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2002, and whose membership includes international politicians and government advisers from developed and developing countries, academics and representatives of business and multinational corporations, trade unions and civil society organisations. The report explores the social dimensions of globalisation and the need to build a fair and inclusive global economic system, and argues that the dominant perspective on globalisation must shift from a narrow focus on markets to encompass a broader recognition of the needs of people in the communities in which they live. Issues highlighted and recommendations made in the report include: better governance and accountability at both national and international levels to foster productive and equitable markets; empowerment of local communities, including gender equality; sustainable development based on the interdependent pillars of economic, social and environmental development; fairer rules for international trade, investment and finance; measures to overcome inequality and raise capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and a stronger multilateral framework based on an effective United Nations.