Globalization And Third World Trade Unions

Author : Henk Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Third World Trade Unions written by Henk Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henk Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788186816035
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization And Third World Trade Unions written by Henk Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Union Responses to Globalization written by Verena Schmidt and published by International Labor Office. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842770719
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalisation and Labour written by Ronaldo Munck and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alwyn Didar Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Union Responses to Globalization written by Alwyn Didar Singh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the response of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to the challenges posed by structural adjustment programmes introduced since 1983. Reviews the attempts made by the TUC to influence economic policy through a critique of some of the reform measures and also by participating in the implementation of specific policies.

Author : Gerda van Roozendaal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135842736
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Unions and Global Governance written by Gerda van Roozendaal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what makes such organizations successful on an international level. The focus is on trade unions, as a key international group of NGOs. It asks whether a global system can be designed to stimulate countries to observe a set of minimum or core standards. It explores three important questions: how have unions attempted to influence the debate on the inclusion of minumum labour standards in the WTO agreement?; what accounts for their success or lack of success?; and what conclusions, with respect to the effective behaviour of trade unions in the construction of international policy, can be drawn from these experiences? In exploring these questions the text looks at social clause debates within a number of international bodies: the ILO, OECD and the EU, and within two countries: the USA and India.

Author : Tony Pilch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trades Unions and Globalisation written by Tony Pilch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Kyloh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Challenge of Globalization written by Robert Kyloh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises two articles dealing with several aspects of the international trade union agenda which are being developed in response to the challenge of globalization. Explains and elaborates policies and position papers adopted by various international trade union centres, as well as arguments raised by representatives of the trade union movement in debates about globalization labour standards and full employment. Includes annexes.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238171
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour and Globalisation written by Ronaldo Munck and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Susan Hayter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849809836
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy written by Susan Hayter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.