Organised Labour

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839104031
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Matters written by Guy Mundlak and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harry Alvin Millis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Labor written by Harry Alvin Millis and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jürgen R. Grote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317053672
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Movements and Organized Labour written by Jürgen R. Grote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts on the political, social and economic catalysts behind the changing motives finding expression in a multitude of novel types of joint collective action and inter-organizational alliances. The contributors to this volume go beyond attempting to place unions, movements, crises, precariousness, protests and coalitions at the centre of the research. Instead, they focus on actors who themselves transcend clear-cut social camps. They look at the values and motives underlying collective action by both types of actors as much as at their structural and strategic properties, and inter-organizational relations and networks. This creates a fresh, genuine and historically valid account of the incompatibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for inter-organizational learning.

Author : George Douglas Howard Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organised Labour written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Phelan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113590
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Organised Labour written by Craig Phelan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers analysis of the causes and extent of the movement's current malaise from a variety of vantage points. It provides eight national and regional studies - China, Britain, France, the US, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Ghana and Cameroon - that detail problems face and the revitalisation strategies trade unions have pursued in response. It also offers fresh scholarly perspective on a host of pressing labour issues: the extent and impact of global corporate restructuring; the ongoing fight to achieve core labour standards; the enduring importance of gender and diversity; the fortunes of the international labour movement; the relationship between trade unions and NGOs; the intellectual response to organised labour's present predicament; and the role of labour in the global social justice movement." -- BACK COVER.

Author : Joe Buckley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000515753
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnamese Labour Militancy written by Joe Buckley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends of worker activism. Vietnamese labour politics is undergoing significant changes, with a new Labour code that became law in 2021 allowing workers to join ‘worker representative organisations’ not subordinate to the state-led union or the ruling Communist Party. This book reflects on the nature of Vietnamese labour politics on the cusp of reform. It focuses on nominally formal labour within the garment and footwear industry in the southern part of the country, the author argues that while employment in the formal economy is expanding in terms of the absolute numbers of people working in formally registered firms, capital employs various ways to make conditions inside these companies increasingly insecure. In response, workers organise in forms of decentralised resistance. The book analyses two of these in detail; wildcat strikes and ‘microstrikes’—short collective work stoppages that occur inside workplaces. Arguing that labour resistance is structured in relation to capital’s behaviour, and not only because of weak labour relations institutions and mechanisms, this book makes a valuable contribution to the field of labour and social movement studies, development studies, sociology, and political economy and Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Monageng Mogalakwe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429780532
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Organised Labour in Botswana written by Monageng Mogalakwe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume departs from conventional analyses of Botswana’s political economy and focuses on the second phase of Botswana’s capitalist development from 1966-1990, arguing that even in a formally liberal democratic country, the imperatives of economic growth and development in a capitalist context give rise to the state’s close supervision and control of organised labour. Taking inspiration from Marx’s theories of history, Monageng Mogalakwe examines the capitalist form of the Botswana state and its relationships with the trade unions, labour law, industrial relations, class struggle and organised labour in a period characterised by direct state intervention in the economy and in industrial relations.

Author : A. V. Jose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Labour in the 21st Century written by A. V. Jose and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected case studies which explore the theme of trade union responses to globalisation, in order to illustrate experiences drawn from three broad groups of countries: industrialised, middle-income and developing economies. Country case studies include: Japan, Sweden, the United States, Chile, Israel, Korea, India and South Africa. These studies seek to promote wider understanding of the role and changing priorities of organised labour in a range of countries at varying stages of development. They highlight the fact that the major challenge for unions in all countries, notably developing countries, is the representation of non-traditional sectors, and the provision of new services.

Author : Aaron Benanav
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761318
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automation and the Future of Work written by Aaron Benanav and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists, and social critics have united in arguing that we are on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the muchdiscussed “rise of the robots” really explain the long-term decline in the demand for labor? Automation and the Future of Work uncovers the deep weaknesses of twenty-first-century capitalism and the reasons why the engine of economic growth keeps stalling. Equally important, Benanav goes on to salvage from automation discourse its utopian content: the positive vision of a world without work. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity if technological innovation alone can’t deliver it? In response to calls for a permanent universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a groundbreaking counterproposal.

Author : Melanie Simms
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466024
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Union Voices written by Melanie Simms and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing means in the UK, how it emerged, and what its impact has been. Although the supportive legislation of the New Labour government led to considerable optimism in the late 1990s about the prospects for renewal, Simms, Holgate, and Heery argue that despite considerable evidence of investment, new practices, and innovation, UK unions have largely failed to see any significant change in their membership and influence. The authors argue that this is because of the wider context within which organizing activity takes place and also reflects the fundamental tensions within these initiatives. Even without evidence of any significant growth in labor influence across UK society more broadly, organizing campaigns have given many of the participants an opportunity to grow and flourish. The book presents their experiences and uses them to show how their personal commitment to organizing and trade unionism can sometimes be undermined by the tensions and tactics used during campaigns.