Workers And Trade Unions For Climate Solidarity

Author : Paul Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317554332

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Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity by Paul Hampton Pdf

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers’ climate action. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.

Author : Paul Stephen Hampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1317554329

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Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity by Paul Stephen Hampton Pdf

Author : Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849714648

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Trade Unions in the Green Economy by Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell Pdf

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Together they open up a new area of research: Environmental Labour Studies. The authors ask what kind of environmental policies are unions in different countries and sectors developing. How do they aim to reconcile the protection of jobs with the protection of the environment? What are the forms of cooperation developing between trade unions and environmental movements, especially the so-called Red-Green alliances? Under what conditions are unions striving to create climate change policies that transcend the economic system? Where are they trying to find solutions that they see as possible within the present socio-economic conditions? What are the theoretical and practical implications of trade unions' "Just Transition", and the problems and perspectives of "Green Jobs"? The authors also explore how food workers' rights would contribute to low carbon agriculture, the role workers' identities play in union climate change policies, and the difficulties of creating solidarity between unions across the global North and South. Trade Unions in the Green Economy opens the climate change debate to academics and trade unionists from a range of disciplines in the fields of labour studies, environmental politics, environmental management, and climate change policy. It will also be useful for environmental organisations, trade unions, business, and politicians.

Author : Idesbald Goddeeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739150702

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Solidarity with Solidarity by Idesbald Goddeeris Pdf

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to spread information, raise funds, and provide the Polish opposition with humanitarian relief and technical assistance. Labor movements especially stepped into the limelight. A number of Western European unions were concerned about the new international tension following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the new hard-line policy of the US and saw Solidarnosc as a political instrument of clerical and neo-conservative cold warriors. This book analyzes reaction to Solidarnosc in nine Western European countries and within the international trade union confederations. It argues that Western solidarity with Solidarnosc was highly determined by its instrumental value within the national context. Trade unions openly sided with Solidarnosc when they had an interest in doing so, namely when Solidarnosc could strengthen their own program or position. But this book also reveals that reaction in allegedly reluctant countries was massive, albeit discreet, pragmatic, and humanitarian, rather than vocal, emotional, and political.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UIUC:30112104529927

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Labour in the Global South by International Labour Office Pdf

Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.? -Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Author : Edouard Morena,Dunja Krause,Dimitris Stevis
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Employee rights
ISBN : 0745339921

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Just Transitions by Edouard Morena,Dunja Krause,Dimitris Stevis Pdf

How can we secure jobs in the shift towards sustainable production?

Author : Virginia Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192509659

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Reconstructing Solidarity by Virginia Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano Pdf

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizing tactics. Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements, and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Ieconstructing Solidarity examines how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity to challenge this vicious circle and to re-regulate increasingly precarious jobs. Comparative case studies from fourteen European countries describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, retail, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat packing, and logistics. Their findings argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders.

Author : Paul Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317554349

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Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity by Paul Hampton Pdf

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers’ climate action. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.

Author : James Dunkerley,Chris Whitehouse
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4912568

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Unity is Strength by James Dunkerley,Chris Whitehouse Pdf

Unity is Strength describes the hardships and violence suffered by Latin American workers and exposes the economic and political system which exploits and oppresses them. It also looks at the nature of trade unions and workers' struggles in Latin America and considers the need for effective solidarity by British and European trade unionists.

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : Jeremy Brecher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317262268

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Climate Insurgency by Jeremy Brecher Pdf

Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth's climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts "from above" and non-governmental ones "from below" that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure. Historian and longtime activist Jeremy Brecher presents a public trust doctrine that can legitimate global climate insurgency in national and international law. He shows how to make national economies climate-safe and points the way toward justly distributing the global costs and benefits of climate protection. In addition, he lays out a new strategy to make governments and economies meet their obligations to protect the climate.

Author : Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788114080

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Trade Unions and Migrant Workers by Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx Pdf

This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis – published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 – that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants.

Author : Jan Drahokoupil
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Contracting out
ISBN : 9782874523663

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The outsourcing challenge by Jan Drahokoupil Pdf

Production networks in many sectors have become increasingly fragmented. Cutting labour costs by lowering pay, increasing work intensity and/or shifting flexibility costs to workers are just some of the motivations for outsourcing. But it can also be used to circumvent employee representation and collective bargaining systems within companies, and labour market regulations in general. Though such intentions may not drive the bulk of outsourcing decisions, any change in company boundaries is likely to impact employment, working conditions and industrial relations in the value chain. This book focuses on the dynamics of outsourcing in Europe from the perspective of employees. In particular, it considers one insufficiently studied aspect: the impact of outsourcing on working conditions and employment relations in companies. The book also collects lessons learned from the efforts of employees and trade unions to shape outsourcing decisions, processes and their impact on employment and working conditions.

Author : Trywell Kalusopa,Nnimmo Bassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1919706356

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Climate Change Strategy Paper for Trade Unions in Africa by Trywell Kalusopa,Nnimmo Bassey Pdf

Author : Solomon Barkin
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008523337

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Worker Militancy and Its Consequences by Solomon Barkin Pdf