Trade Unions And The Global Crisis

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
ISBN 13 : 9789221249269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Unions and the Global Crisis written by International Labour Office and published by International Labor Office. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the recent global economic crisis has debilitated labour in many parts of the world, many segments of the trade union movement have been fighting back, combining traditional and innovative strategies and articulating alternatives to the dominant political and economic models. Trade unions and the global crisis offers a composite overview of the responses of trade unions and other workers' organizations to neoliberal globalization in general and to the recent financial crisis in particular. The essays here, by trade unionists and academics from around the world, explore the state of labour in Brazil, China, Nepal, South Africa, Turkey, Europe and North America. The authors offer a range of short-term strategies and actions, medium- and long-term policies, and alternative visions that challenge the current development paradigm. This book makes a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on labour's role as an economic, political and social force in building a more democratic and just society.

Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783482796
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis written by Andreas Bieler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance. Emphasizing the importance of agency, this book analyzes transnational labour action in times of crisis, historically and now. It draws on a variety of fascinating cases, across formal and informal collectives, in order to clarify which factors facilitate or block the formation of solidarity. Moving beyond empirical description of cases to an informed understanding of collective action across borders, the volume provides an insightful theorization of transnational action.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317230655
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: European Trade Unions and the 1970s Economic Crisis written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set report and analyse European trade union responses to the 1970s economic crisis across a range of nations including, Germany, Italy, France, Britain and Sweden. The set will be of interest to those studying trade unions, industrial relations and European political economy.

Author : David Coats
Publisher : ETUI
ISBN 13 : 287452218X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiting from the crisis: towards a model of more equitable and sustainable growth written by David Coats and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy is still struggling to emerge from the worst financial crisis and global recession since the Second World War. In this context, TUAC, ETUI, GURN and ITUC created a Task Force to define the parameters of a new growth model. This publication which is the initial result of its work, takes up the challenge of developing progressive alternatives to the failed neo-liberal model that has dominated economic policy for over three decades. It consists of contributions by more than 30 authors, all with links to the global labour movement, and a preface by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The different chapters analyse the causes and implications of the crisis and propose alternative ways toward more equitable and sustainable models of growth. A comprehensive approach is taken and the topics addressed include: the need for a new approach to macroeconomic policy to promote strong and stable growth and high employment; developing alternative welfare measures to GDP; how to re-regulate financial markets so that they serve the real economy; a development model for the global South; a new approach to labour markets that ensures that they deliver decent jobs and promote greater equality; the need for a comprehensive set of policies to make economic activity ecologically sustainable.

Author : Sharit K. Bhowmik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317560027
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Labour written by Sharit K. Bhowmik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of working class as a whole and informal labour in particular. The essays examine issues such as down-sizing, lowering of wages, insecurity and erosion of labour rights, and show how labour is grappling with the situation. The volume critically re-assesses varied aspects of the growing informal sector: its dubious credential as an employment provider during crises; its non-adherence to internationally recognized standards of decent work; the problems and potential of workers' unions; and the need for a regulatory regime. It also discusses changes in the Indian labour market induced by business environment and technology as well as its future dynamics. Presenting a historical review of labour markets, the work explores the deregulation wave under the globalization of 1980s and the interactions between existing unstable asset markets and labour markets. The book will prove especially useful to students and scholars in economics, labour studies and sociology, and those engaged in public policy and governance.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783868727272
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity in the Economic Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Utting
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137002506
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change written by P. Utting and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global crises not only deeply impact the economy and people's livelihoods, they also unsettle basic ideas and assumptions about the meaning and drivers of development. This collection of theoretical and empirical studies explores the substance and politics of policy change following the 2007/8 crisis from the perspective of developing countries.

Author : Thomas Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Movement for World Trade Union Unity written by Thomas Bell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Bill Fletcher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261569
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity Divided written by Bill Fletcher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.