Labour And Transnational Action In Times Of Crisis

Author : Andreas Bieler,Roland Erne,Darragh Golden,Idar Helle,Knut Kjeldstadli,Tiago Matos,Sabina Stan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783482795

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Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis by Andreas Bieler,Roland Erne,Darragh Golden,Idar Helle,Knut Kjeldstadli,Tiago Matos,Sabina Stan Pdf

Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance. Emphasizing the importance of agency, this book analyzes transnational labour action in times of crisis, historically and now. It draws on a variety of fascinating cases, across formal and informal collectives, in order to clarify which factors facilitate or block the formation of solidarity. Moving beyond empirical description of cases to an informed understanding of collective action across borders, the volume provides an insightful theorization of transnational action.

Author : Roland Erne,Sabina Stan,Darragh Golden,Imre Szabó,Vincenzo Maccarrone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009062398

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Politicising Commodification by Roland Erne,Sabina Stan,Darragh Golden,Imre Szabó,Vincenzo Maccarrone Pdf

This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleashed a plethora of union and social-movement protests, including transnationally. The book presents findings that are crucial for the prospects of European democracy, as labour politics is essential in framing the struggles about the direction of NEG along a commodification–decommodification axis rather than a national–EU axis. To shed light on corresponding processes at EU level, it upscales insights on the historical role that labour movements have played in the development of democracy and welfare states. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9221249263

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Trade Unions and the Global Crisis by International Labour Office Pdf

If the recent global economic crisis has debilitated labour in many parts of the world, many segments of the trade union movement have been fighting back, combining traditional and innovative strategies and articulating alternatives to the dominant political and economic models. Trade unions and the global crisis offers a composite overview of the responses of trade unions and other workers' organizations to neoliberal globalization in general and to the recent financial crisis in particular. The essays here, by trade unionists and academics from around the world, explore the state of labour in Brazil, China, Nepal, South Africa, Turkey, Europe and North America. The authors offer a range of short-term strategies and actions, medium- and long-term policies, and alternative visions that challenge the current development paradigm. This book makes a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on labour's role as an economic, political and social force in building a more democratic and just society.

Author : Thomas Prosser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526148056

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European Labour Movements in Crisis by Thomas Prosser Pdf

Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book's hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and policymakers.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1788211065

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Rethinking Global Labour by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

Author : Roland Erne,Darragh Golden,Sabina Stan,Imre Szabó,Vincenzo Maccarrone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316511633

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Politicising Commodification by Roland Erne,Darragh Golden,Sabina Stan,Imre Szabó,Vincenzo Maccarrone Pdf

Analyses the EU's post-2008 economic governance regime and the labour protests it triggered that threw a lifeline to EU democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448049

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Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations by Anonim Pdf

This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Chun-Yi Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351751407

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Chinese Labour in the Global Economy by Andreas Bieler,Chun-Yi Lee Pdf

Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back. Set against the background of China’s integration into the global economy along uneven and combined development lines, this volume explores new forms of resistance by Chinese workers, be it through the state trade union All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) or through informal labour NGOs. It also analyses the links between Chinese formal and informal labour organisations, with labour organisations outside China. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Author : Jörg Nowak,Madhumita Dutta,Peter Birke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786604057

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Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century by Jörg Nowak,Madhumita Dutta,Peter Birke Pdf

While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. Through original case studies, the book looks at the various shades of workers’ movements, analysing different forms of popular organisation as responses to new social and economic conditions, such as restructuring of work and new areas of investment.

Author : Daniele Caramani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9780198737421

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Comparative Politics by Daniele Caramani Pdf

With an unparalleled amount of empirical material, this is the most comprehensive introduction to comparative politics written by the leading experts in the field.

Author : Ines Wagner
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729171

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Workers without Borders by Ines Wagner Pdf

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner’s Workers without Borders, about the troubling working conditions of migrant meat and construction workers, exposed a distressing dichotomy: how could a country with such strong employers’ associations and trade unions allow for the establishment and maintenance of such a precarious labor market segment? Wagner introduces an overlooked piece of the puzzle: re-regulatory politics at the workplace level. She interrogates the position of the posted worker in contemporary European labour markets and the implications of and regulations for this position in industrial relations, social policy and justice in Europe. Workers without Borders concentrates on how local actors implement European rules and opportunities to analyze the balance of power induced by the EU around policy issues. Wagner examines the particularities of posted worker dynamics at the workplace level, in German meatpacking facilities and on construction sites, to reveal the problems and promises of European Union governance as regulating social justice. Using a bottom-up approach through in-depth interviews with posted migrant workers and administrators involved in the posting process, Workers without Borders shows that strong labor-market regulation via independent collective bargaining institutions at the workplace level is crucial to effective labor rights in marginal workplaces. Wagner identifies structures of access and denial to labor rights for temporary intra-EU migrant workers and the problems contained within this system for the EU more broadly.

Author : Michelle Williams,Vishwas Satgar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000194258

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Challenging Inequality in South Africa by Michelle Williams,Vishwas Satgar Pdf

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality. Through concrete empirical examples of movements, workers’ struggles, initiatives, and politics in challenging inequality, the authors illustrate ‘transitional compasses’ that go beyond protest politics to a ‘generative’ politics, a politics of building the alternatives in the interstitial spaces of capitalism. The conceptual framing is oriented around the way in which power is produced and reproduced through intricate relationships between hegemonic projects and everyday life. While power underpins all social relations, it is often taken for granted, as it is frequently hidden behind other social relations. Resistance to power emerges through engendering counter-hegemonic projects that are intertwined with alternative everyday practices. The authors highlight sources of alternative forms of power found in resistance to dominant forms of power through concrete experiences to create transformative alternatives. To concretize the conceptual framing, the authors look at the emancipatory possibilities of a universal basic income, the use of law in tackling inequality in health and education, creative initiatives to establish a people-centred food system through food sovereignty, new forms of organizing led by precarious workers, democratic possibilities in local state delivery, and attempts at reconceptualizing the good life by looking at issues of happiness and ecosocialism. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Globalizations.

Author : Joshua B. Forrest
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538154519

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Local Autonomy as a Human Right by Joshua B. Forrest Pdf

Local Autonomy as a Human Right contends that local communities struggle to preserve their territorial autonomy over time despite changes to the broader political and geographic contexts within which they are embedded. Forrest argues that this both reflects and is evidence of a worldwide embrace of local control as a key political and social value, indeed, of such importance that it should be embraced and codified as a human right. This study weaves together evidence grounded in a variety of disciplines - history, geography, comparative politics, sociology, public policy, anthropology, international jurisprudence, rural studies, urban studies -- to make clear that a presumed, inherent moral right to local self-determination has been manifested in many different historical and social contexts. This book constructs a compelling argument favoring a human right to local autonomy. It identifies practical factors that help to account for the relative success of communities that are able to assert local control over time. Here, particular attention is paid to whether localities are able to generate policy and organizational capacity. Forrest suggests that a focus on local policy and organizational capacity can help to explain why some communities attempting to assert greater local control are more successful than others. Local Autonomy as a Human Right contributes to scholarly debates regarding the varied impacts of globalization, with the place-based perspective and moral emphasis on territorial-centered rights put forth herein offering a necessary counter-narrative to the often-presumed predominance of global forces.

Author : Vanessa Pupavac,Mladen Pupavac
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538144947

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Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development by Vanessa Pupavac,Mladen Pupavac Pdf

Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters. Faust stories emerged in early modern Europe linked to the shaking of the traditional religious and political order, and the pursuit of new areas of human knowledge and activity which led to a shift from viewing disasters as acts of God to acts of nature. Faust’s dam building and land reclamation project in Goethe’s poem was inspired by Dutch hydro-engineering and in turn inspired others. Faustian dreams of an engineered future were pursued by the American Yugoslav inventor Nikola Tesla and the country of his birth towards establishing its national independence and escaping the fate of being a borderland. Faust remains a compelling reference point to explore European visions of disaster and development. If Faust captured the European spirit of earlier centuries, what is today’s outlook? Ambitious Faustian development visions to eradicate natural disasters have been replaced by anti-Faustian risk cosmopolitanism sceptical towards human activity in ways counter to building collective protection from disaster. Tesla’s country of birth fears returning to being an insecure borderland of Europe. This powerful and timely book calls for a rekindling of European humanism and Faust’s vision of ‘free people standing on free land’.

Author : Tony Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783488803

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Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition by Tony Burns Pdf

The first of three volumes, this definitive study explores the politics of social institutions, from the time of the ancient Greeks to the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Tony Burns focuses on those civil-society institutions occupying the intermediate social space which exists between the family or household, on the one hand, and what Hegel refers to as ‘the strictly political state’, on the other. Arguing that the internal affairs of social institutions are a legitimate concern for students of politics, he focuses on the notion of authority, together with that of an individual’s station and its duties. Burns discusses the work of such key thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Nicholas of Cusa, Jean Bodin, Charles Loyseau, John Calvin, Martin Luther and Gerrard Winstanley. He considers what they have said about the relationship that exists between superiors in positions of authority and their subordinates within hierarchical social institutions.