Trades Unions And Globalisation

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 : Tony Pilch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 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 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Baldwin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881324485
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decline of US Labor Unions and the Role of Trade written by Robert Baldwin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less) who were represented by a labor union—from 29 to 14 percent; the unionization proportion declined much less among workers with above-median education (19 to 13 percent). The union wage premium also declined for workers with basic education, from 58 to 51 percent, whereas it rose slightly for better-educated unionists, from 18 to 19 percent. Thus, whatever safety net American unions provide was disproportionately lost by the less-educated workers who, arguably, need it the most. In this study, Robert E. Baldwin investigates the role of changes in US imports and exports in explaining this dramatic decline. The main analysis (which includes workers in manufacturing as well as service sectors) relates changes in the number of union workers across industries to changes in domestic spending, imports, exports, and the intensity with which labor is used across these industries for both union and nonunion workers. Baldwin finds that although globalization (i.e., increased trade) seems to have contributed only modestly to the general decline in unionization, it has, more importantly, contributed to the decline in unionization among workers with less education. The study concludes with a discussion on the implication of this and the other findings for governmental policy and for the policy position of unions toward globalization.

Author : Peter Fairbrother
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134186444
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalisation, State and Labour written by Peter Fairbrother and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour. It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes involving politics, the economy and society, the position and place of the state, and the significance of state policy in this process, is heavily contested. Presenting a timely opportunity to review and re-assess the modern state with regards to labour, the essays included in this text, written by leading researchers in the area, develop a new theoretical framework that puts work, workers and their organizations at the heart of analyzing state restructuring. Using major studies from four countries (UK, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand), the contributors challenge many preconceptions regarding globalization and labour organization - including the notions that the state is being marginalized by the processes of globalization, and that the trade unions are becoming irrelevant.

Author : Peter Fairbrother
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136708197
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unions and Globalisation written by Peter Fairbrother and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically, in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor geography and business studies in general.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trade Union Guide to Globalisation written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143843961X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Globalization Work for Women written by Valentine M. Moghadam and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

Author : Gary Chaison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493904884
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unions’ Response to Globalization written by Gary Chaison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is commonly described in trade and cultural terms but its impact on unions and collective bargaining is seldom assessed. The few studies of unions and globalization are mostly collections of cases studies of how unions can work together or with other alliance partners to defend against the power of multinational corporations. This book goes beyond the current research by asking how unions have tried to deal with globalization and how globalization might threaten the fundamental union mission of taking wages, hours and conditions of employment out of competition. The introductory chapter defines globalization and uses the case of the Detroit Three automakers (GM, Chrysler and Ford) to show how globalization can affect employment and union size, influence and relevancy. The second chapter shows how unions deal globalization through collective bargaining regarding outsourcing, alliances, strikes and political action, including lobbying and international work standards. The final chapter argues that the unions cannot continue unchanged in this age of globalization and asks what they must do to be effective and relevant.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238270
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( 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.