The Role Of Collective Bargaining In The Global Economy

Author : Susan Hayter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Steven Hecker,Margaret Hallock
Publisher : Eugene, Or. : Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : International labor activities
ISBN : UCSC:32106010340294

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Labor in a Global Economy by Steven Hecker,Margaret Hallock Pdf

Discusses the impact of economic globalisation on labour unions and labour relations in Canada and the USA, and examines trends since the mid-1970s. Includes case studies of collective bargaining in the forest products industry and the crisis of US health care with lessons from Canada.

Author : Carola Frege,John Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135020934

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Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy by Carola Frege,John Kelly Pdf

"Employment Relations" is widely taught in business schools around the world. Increasingly however more emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relations between employers and workers. It is becoming ever more important to comprehend today’s work and employment issues alongside a knowledge of the dynamics between global financial and product markets, global production chains, national and international employment actors and institutions and the ways in which these relationships play out in different national contexts. This textbook is the first to present a cross-section of country studies, including all four BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China alongside integrative thematic chapters covering all the important topics needed to excel in this field. The textbook also benefits from the editors' and contributors' experience as leading scholars in Employment Relations. The book is an ideal resource for students on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate comparative programmes across areas such as Employment Relations, Human Resource Management, Political Economy, Labour Politics, Industrial and Economic Sociology, Regulation and Social Policy.

Author : Toke Aidt,Zafiris Tzannatos
Publisher : Directions in Development
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106015902999

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Unions and Collective Bargaining by Toke Aidt,Zafiris Tzannatos Pdf

This book offers an extensive survey and synthesis of the economic literature on trade unions and collective bargaining and their impact on micro-and macro-economic outcomes. The authors demonstrate the effects of collective bargaining in different country settings and time periods. A comprehensive reference, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of labor policy as well as to policy makers and anyone with an interest in the economic consequences of unionism.

Author : Sanford M. Jacoby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Comparative industrial relations
ISBN : 9780195089042

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The Workers of Nations by Sanford M. Jacoby Pdf

The international economy is a key factor shaping relations between employers, unions and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. This study reports how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Jeffrey Harrod,Robert O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134443413

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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 : Richard P. Appelbaum,Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501703348

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Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy by Richard P. Appelbaum,Nelson Lichtenstein Pdf

The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains—such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads—generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform.

Author : Richard M. Locke,Thomas A. Kochan,Michael J. Piore
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262620987

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Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy by Richard M. Locke,Thomas A. Kochan,Michael J. Piore Pdf

Comprises essays which examine changes in industrial relations and work structures in 11 countries.

Author : Susan L. Kang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : K. Papadakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230319448

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Shaping Global Industrial Relations by K. Papadakis Pdf

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards. This volume includes contributions from fifteen international specialists to give a comprehensive discussion of the 80-plus IFAs that existed in July 2010.

Author : Ulla Liukkunen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030169770

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Collective Bargaining in Labour Law Regimes by Ulla Liukkunen Pdf

This book addresses the theme of collective bargaining in different legal systems and explores legal framework of collective bargaining as well as the role of different bargaining models in domestic labour law systems in altogether twenty-one jurisdictions throughout the world. Recent development of collective bargaining regimes can be viewed as part of a larger development of labour law models that face increasing challenges caused by globalization and transition of work and workplaces. The book places particular emphasis on identifying and examining most important development trends affecting domestic labour law regimes and collective bargaining and regulatory responses thereto. The analysis offered extents to transnational dimension of collective bargaining. As the chapters analyse the influence of the legal frameworks of collective bargaining in different countries they provide unique comparative insight into the topic which is central to understanding the function of labour law.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : UCAL:B4270389

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Collective Bargaining by International Labour Office Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264362574

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Negotiating Our Way Up Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work by OECD Pdf

Collective bargaining and workers’ voice are often discussed in the past rather than in the future tense, but can they play a role in the context of a rapidly changing world of work? This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the functioning of collective bargaining systems and workers’ voice arrangements across OECD countries, and new insights on their effect on labour market performance today.

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.