Transnational Trade Unionism

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Christian Lévesque,Marc-Antonin Hennebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Michael E. Gordon,Michael Ernest Gordon,Lowell Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801437792

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Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions by Michael E. Gordon,Michael Ernest Gordon,Lowell Turner Pdf

Organized labour faces many challenges in the increasingly global economy, including the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers. This text, however, presents evidence that unions can survive and grow if labour is willing to co-operate across national borders. The book is a study of such co-operation as an effective weapon against the exploitation of workers in today's world.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Bruno Ciccaglione,John Hilary,Ingemar Lindberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317678656

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Free Trade and Transnational Labour by Andreas Bieler,Bruno Ciccaglione,John Hilary,Ingemar Lindberg Pdf

Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade agreements, building on this expanded trade agenda. Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : John P. Windmuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112011696884

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The Shape of Transnational Unionism by John P. Windmuller Pdf

Monograph on international trade unionism and its implications for USA trade unions - gives historical background of the movement, discusses membership, financing, leadership, publications, aims, activities, and relationship to the ICFTU, and includes a directory of international trade secretariats. One-page bibliography and references.

Author : Katarzyna Gajewska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134018383

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Transnational Labour Solidarity by Katarzyna Gajewska Pdf

Why and how to study European solidarity? -- Analytical categories in conceptualizing solidaristic behaviour -- Presentation of cases -- The vertical dimension of Europeanization of the trade union movement -- Interaction and action as transformational mechanisms -- Framing solidarity : interests, identification and reciprocity -- Situational mechanisms : market integration and trade unions.

Author : Charles Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134460694

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International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals) by Charles Levinson Pdf

As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013) displayed the force of his insight into the dynamics of modern economics and technology. First published in 1972, this book considers the opportunities which allow unions to command an increasing share in decisions that shape the worker’s destiny. Chapters include discussions on the multinational corporations, industrial democracy and the ideas behind collective bargaining.

Author : Bengt Furåker,Bengt Larsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030387709

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Trade Union Cooperation in Europe by Bengt Furåker,Bengt Larsson Pdf

This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses of two specific questions: the debates on statutory minimum wages and the Posting of Workers Directive. Drawing on empirical research, the authors take a comparative approach, considering national industrial relations regimes as well as individual sectors. With the ongoing processes of integration in Europe, it has become increasingly important for unions to cooperate with regard to employers and EU institutions. The authors illustrate the interconnections between national and European industrial relations, and explore the process of European integration in labour markets. Illustrating the potential for and difficulties involved in deepening trade union cooperation across Europe, this work is a vital read for trade unionists, researchers and students interested in European trade unionism and labour markets.

Author : Magnus Sverke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429788642

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The Future of Trade Unionism by Magnus Sverke Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume discusses the conditions for contemporary and future unionism in the light of recent economic, political and managerial changes. It presents theoretical and empirical research from Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and the United States. Part 2 provides a rich international description of threats and challenges to contemporary and future unionism. Part 3 focuses on union strategical and structural change. Part 4 is concerned with the consequences of the changing union environment for member-union relations. Magnus Sverke and the contributors here present research addressing how the changing environmental conditions affect unions and their members and demonstrate the importance of applying an international and multi-disciplinary perspective on the analysis of these issues.

Author : John P. Windmuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN : UCSC:32106005223257

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The International Trade Union Movement by John P. Windmuller Pdf

After six months of backpacking and soul-searching across the world, Amber MacLean is flat broke. There are worse places for a twentysomething to be stuck than the Amalfi Coast, but the only way she can earn enough money for a plane ticket home to California is to teach English to two of the brattiest children she has ever met. It doesn't help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, the young master of the crumbling villa tests Amber's patience and will at every turn--not to mention her hormones. When her position turns into a full-time nanny gig, Amber grows dangerously closer to the enigmatic recluse. But can she give up the certainty of home for someone whose closely guarded heart feels a world apart from her own?

Author : Ad Knotter
Publisher : Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 9463724710

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Transformations of Trade Unionism by Ad Knotter Pdf

Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.

Author : Kate Bronfenbrenner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801461545

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Global Unions by Kate Bronfenbrenner Pdf

To meet the challenges of globalization, unions must improve their understanding of the changing nature of corporate ownership structures and practices, and they must develop alliances and strategies appropriate to the new environment. Global Unions includes original research from scholars around the world on the range of innovative strategies that unions use to adapt to different circumstances, industries, countries, and corporations in taking on the challenge of mounting cross-border campaigns against global firms. This collection emerges from a landmark conference where unionists, academics, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations from the Global South and the Global North met to devise strategies for labor to use when confronting the most powerful corporations such as Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil. The workplaces discussed here include agriculture (bananas), maritime labor (dock workers), manufacturing (apparel, automobiles, medical supplies), food processing, and services (school bus drivers). Kate Bronfenbrenner's introduction sets the stage, followed by contributions describing specific examples from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Bronfenbrenner's conclusion focuses on the key lessons for strengthening union power in relation to global capital.

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Johann Sassenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : UCAL:$B240008

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Twenty-five Years of International Trade Unionism by Johann Sassenbach Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Gajewska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134018376

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Transnational Labour Solidarity by Katarzyna Gajewska Pdf

The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers. Contrary to much existing research and despite national differences, Gajewska examines how trade unions cooperate and the forms in which this cooperation take place. Drawing on four case studies illustrating experiences of Polish, German, British, Latvian and Swedish trade unions in various sectors and workers’ representatives at a multinational company, this book investigates the conditions under which trade unions and workers formulate their interests in non-national / regional terms, and analyzes the character, limits and potentials of solidarity in a transnational context. Seeking to generate a new theory of European integration of labour and to contribute to sociological approaches on the European integration and Europeanization of society, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, European integration, labour/industrial relations, trade unionism and sociology.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351877909

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Transnational Labour History by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is only by comparing and contrasting the experiences across time and space that a true understanding of the subject can be attempted. Professor Marcel van der Linden, has contributed much to the debate on cross-border processes and comparisons. This volume makes available in English a collection of twelve of his most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range of journals and volumes, with two original contributions, Transnational Labour History brings them together in a single convenient collection, together with a new introduction. This work will undoubtedly provide an invaluable resource for all students of European labour history.