Unions And Globalisation

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Peter Fairbrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415416647

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Unions and Globalisation by Peter Fairbrother Pdf

In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically, in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor geography and business studies in general.

Author : Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136708190

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Unions and Globalisation by Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams Pdf

In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically, in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor geography and business studies in general.

Author : Gary Chaison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781493904884

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The Unions’ Response to Globalization by Gary Chaison Pdf

Globalization is commonly described in trade and cultural terms but its impact on unions and collective bargaining is seldom assessed. The few studies of unions and globalization are mostly collections of cases studies of how unions can work together or with other alliance partners to defend against the power of multinational corporations. This book goes beyond the current research by asking how unions have tried to deal with globalization and how globalization might threaten the fundamental union mission of taking wages, hours and conditions of employment out of competition. The introductory chapter defines globalization and uses the case of the Detroit Three automakers (GM, Chrysler and Ford) to show how globalization can affect employment and union size, influence and relevancy. The second chapter shows how unions deal globalization through collective bargaining regarding outsourcing, alliances, strikes and political action, including lobbying and international work standards. The final chapter argues that the unions cannot continue unchanged in this age of globalization and asks what they must do to be effective and relevant.

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Al Rainnie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134186440

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Globalisation, State and Labour by Peter Fairbrother,Al Rainnie Pdf

Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour. It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes involving politics, the economy and society, the position and place of the state, and the significance of state policy in this process, is heavily contested. Presenting a timely opportunity to review and re-assess the modern state with regards to labour, the essays included in this text, written by leading researchers in the area, develop a new theoretical framework that puts work, workers and their organizations at the heart of analyzing state restructuring. Using major studies from four countries (UK, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand), the contributors challenge many preconceptions regarding globalization and labour organization - including the notions that the state is being marginalized by the processes of globalization, and that the trade unions are becoming irrelevant.

Author : Henk Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Carole Thornley,Steve Jefferys,Beatrice Appay
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849808095

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Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment by Carole Thornley,Steve Jefferys,Beatrice Appay Pdf

This book makes a unique and invaluable contribution to our understanding of the changing nature of employment and its consequences for industrialized societies. It combines industry case studies, company case studies, and specific country case studies to paint a multi-dimensional picture of the spread of precarious employment and the responses by trade unions and other worker mobilizations. In addition, the astute theoretical chapters demonstrate how the trend toward precarization is reshaping power relationships in ways that have significant implications for individual security and wellbeing, collective agency and empowerment, societal equality and stability, and the vitality of democracy itself. Together these essays provide an exceptionally rich picture and insightful analysis of these important trends in contemporary industrialized societies.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0853238278

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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 : Peter Waterman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349270637

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Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization by Peter Waterman Pdf

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Elliott, Kimberly A.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788977371

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Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards by Elliott, Kimberly A. Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook explores the complex and volatile debate over globalisation and labour standards. It offers key insights into the impact of globalisation on workers, the obligations of corporations and international legal bodies in protecting workers’ rights and maximising the opportunities offered by international trade and investment.

Author : Jürgen Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112065433887

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The Solidarity Dilemma by Jürgen Hoffman Pdf

Author : Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131648300

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Labour and the Challenges of Globalization by Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay Pdf

This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones. The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers. The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.

Author : Tony Pilch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556038737854

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Trades Unions and Globalisation by Tony Pilch Pdf

Author : Valentine M. Moghadam,Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438439600

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Making Globalization Work for Women by Valentine M. Moghadam,Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow Pdf

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women. Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a global context. Looking at labor policies and interviews with people in unions and nongovernmental organizations, the essays diagnose the problems faced by women workers across the world and assess the progress that unions in various countries have made in responding to those problems. Some concerns addressed include the masculine culture of many unions and the challenges of female leadership within them, laissez-faire governance, and the limited success of organizations working on these issues globally. Making Globalization Work for Women brings together in a synthetic and fruitful conversation the work and ideas of feminists, unions, NGOs, and other human rights workers. “Making Globalization Work for Women is an illuminating, timely, and original collaboration among three prominent scholars that fills an important and missing niche in studies of transnational activism, global employment policy, and women’s work.” — Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America