Radical Unions In Europe And The Future Of Collective Interest Representation

Author : Heather Connolly
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034308038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation written by Heather Connolly and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses contemporary trends in radical unionism in Europe. It contains nine country case-studies that probe the limits and possibilities of trade union renewal and focus on radical activity. It assesses the degree to which we are witnessing the emergence of 'radical political unionism' as an alternative model of European trade unionism.

Author : Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909546
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe written by Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioning industrial relations in a discussion that is sensitive to broader political, historical, and ideological tensions, this insightful book offers reflections on the politics of de-regulation that have developed in southern European work and employment relations over the past 20 years.

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000816451
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twilight of World Trotskyism written by John Kelly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world. The book begins this assessment by briefly recapitulating the origins of Trotskyism, as a political current within the communist movement, and elaborating its major elements, before describing the historical development of Trotskyism in the four countries where it has sunk the deepest roots and which house the clear majority of the world’s Fourth Internationals: Argentina, Britain, France and the USA. It then proceeds to map the current state of the global Trotskyist movement. Whatever their current size and status, Trotskyist organizations aspire to become mass political parties and lead revolutionary seizures of power. It is therefore appropriate to examine them through the metrics applied to mainstream parties, namely organization, membership and political influence. The author looks at the dynamics of the Trotskyist movement, focusing in particular on the supposedly harmful effects of the communist movement before then turning to examine the role of Trotskyist organizations in the many revolutionary situations that have appeared since the 1920s and in the various ‘cycles of protest’ that have occurred in the latter half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. The final section examines the two success stories frequently cited in Trotskyist literature, namely the cases of Bolivia and Sri Lanka. The book concludes by setting out and examining a wide variety of explanations for the chronic and sustained weaknesses of the Trotskyist movement, including its flawed appraisals of contemporary politics and economics, ultra-radical programmes and policies, failures in understanding the dynamics of protest and the baleful legacy of Soviet communism. It is argued that these weaknesses are rooted in Trotskyist doctrine and are therefore integral, not peripheral, features of world Trotskyism. This volume will be essential reading for activists and scholars interested in the transnational history and politics of the radical left.

Author : A. Hodder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429534
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Workers and Trade Unions written by A. Hodder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people, and views and opinions young people hold relating to collective representation. It features a selection of specific national cases of high relevance to contemporary debates of precariousness, trade union revitalization strategies and austerity policies.

Author : Tony Dundon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526146401
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, politics and influence at work written by Tony Dundon and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how power operates in workplace settings at local, national and transnational levels. It argues that how people are valued in and out of work is a political dynamic, which reflects and shapes how societies treat their citizens. Offering vital resources for activists and students on labour rights, employment issues and trade unions, this book argues that the influence workers can exert is changing dramatically and future challenges for change can be positive and progressive.

Author : Louise Munkholm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509926380
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing Labour Law Enforcement written by Louise Munkholm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates current issues in labour law enforcement from a socio-legal perspective. It analyses how local Italian enforcement actors promote the protection of workers in Prato – a city that in recent decades has seen a significant influx of Chinese migrants who run small workshops as part of the local clothing industry. Many of the Chinese firms in Prato fail to live up to core labour standards, such as maximum working hours, health and safety at work and payment of social security contributions. The book analyses the strategies and practices employed by three local enforcement actors (labour inspectors, labour unionists and a new type of labour law consultant) in their efforts to assist Chinese firms in improving their level of labour law compliance. Combining documentary, interview and observational data, the book applies theories of legal culture and legal development to address the interaction between law and society. It focuses on the operational aspects of law by asking three interrelated research questions: How do local enforcement actors promote the protection of workers in Chinese firms in Prato? Which tools are employed, and which rationalities drive the initiatives? The book thereby sheds light upon processes of legal cultural adaptation, informing ongoing international and national debates about what can actually be done to combat contemporary gaps in the protection of workers.

Author : Wilkinson, Adrian
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839105542
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing Voice? written by Wilkinson, Adrian and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book addresses the key debates and challenges surrounding the future of work, covering the macro, meso and micro levels of gig work. It provides a consideration of the ways in which technology is shaping the lives of those working in the gig and digital platform economy within the 21st century.

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 : Gregor Gall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526100304
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob Crow: Socialist, leader, fighter written by Gregor Gall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation. This biography focuses on his leadership of the RMT union, examining and exposing a number of popular myths created about him by political opponents. Using the schema of his personal characteristics (including his public persona), his politics and the power of his members, it explains how and why he was able to punch above his weight in industrial relations and on the political stage, helping the small RMT union become as influential as many of its much larger counterparts. As RMT leader, Crow oversaw a rise in membership and promoted a more assertive and successful bargaining approach. While he failed to unite all socialists into one new party, he established himself as the leading popular critic of neo-liberalism, 'New' Labour and the age of austerity.

Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968271
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drift written by Jeff Ferrell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.” In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, he situates contemporary drift within today’s economic, legal, and cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American form of drift—that of the train-hopping hobo—by tracing the hobo’s legal and political history and by detailing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and explores the contested politics of drift: the strategies that legal authorities employ to control drifters in the interest of economic development, the social and spatial dislocations that these strategies ironically exacerbate, and the ways in which drifters create their own slippery forms of resistance. Ferrell concludes that drift constitutes a necessary subject of social inquiry and a way of revitalizing social inquiry itself, offering as it does new models for knowing and engaging with the contemporary world.