Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions

Author : Michael A. Gordon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721690
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions written by Michael A. Gordon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized labor faces enormous challenges in the increasingly global economy. The effect of multinational corporations, the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers in international commerce have all sparked widespread prophecies of trade union demise. This book, however, presents compelling evidence that unions can survive and grow if labor is willing to cooperate across national borders. Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions is a seminal study of such cooperation as an effective weapon against the exploitation of workers in today's world.After assessing the challenges confronting organized labor, the authors turn their attention to specifics. They describe and evaluate the most important transnational labor associations, campaigns, and transnational cooperatives in a variety of industries. Contributors include academics who have assessed the status of union-management relations and international labor organizations as well as participants in union campaigns organized across national boundaries.

Author : Jamie K. McCallum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469473
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Unions, Local Power written by Jamie K. McCallum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins in the United States in 2007 as SEIU struggled to organize private security guards at G4S, a global security services company that is the second largest employer in the world. Failing in its bid, SEIU changed course and sought allies in other countries in which G4S operated. Its efforts resulted in wage gains, benefits increases, new union formations, and an end to management reprisals in many countries throughout the Global South, though close attention is focused on developments in South Africa and India. In this book, Jamie K. McCallum looks beyond these achievements to probe the meaning of some of the less visible aspects of the campaign. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in nine countries and historical research into labor movement trends since the late 1960s, McCallum’s findings reveal several paradoxes. Although global unionism is typically concerned with creating parity and universal standards across borders, local context can both undermine and empower the intentions of global actors, creating varied and uneven results. At the same time, despite being generally regarded as weaker than their European counterparts, U.S. unions are in the process of remaking the global labor movement in their own image. McCallum suggests that changes in political economy have encouraged unions to develop new ways to organize workers. He calls these "governance struggles," strategies that seek not to win worker rights but to make new rules of engagement with capital in order to establish a different terrain on which to organize.

Author : Katarzyna Gajewska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113401838X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Labour Solidarity written by Katarzyna Gajewska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how to study European solidarity? -- Analytical categories in conceptualizing solidaristic behaviour -- Presentation of cases -- The vertical dimension of Europeanization of the trade union movement -- Interaction and action as transformational mechanisms -- Framing solidarity : interests, identification and reciprocity -- Situational mechanisms : market integration and trade unions.

Author : Kate Bronfenbrenner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461545
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Unions written by Kate Bronfenbrenner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet the challenges of globalization, unions must improve their understanding of the changing nature of corporate ownership structures and practices, and they must develop alliances and strategies appropriate to the new environment. Global Unions includes original research from scholars around the world on the range of innovative strategies that unions use to adapt to different circumstances, industries, countries, and corporations in taking on the challenge of mounting cross-border campaigns against global firms. This collection emerges from a landmark conference where unionists, academics, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations from the Global South and the Global North met to devise strategies for labor to use when confronting the most powerful corporations such as Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil. The workplaces discussed here include agriculture (bananas), maritime labor (dock workers), manufacturing (apparel, automobiles, medical supplies), food processing, and services (school bus drivers). Kate Bronfenbrenner's introduction sets the stage, followed by contributions describing specific examples from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Bronfenbrenner's conclusion focuses on the key lessons for strengthening union power in relation to global capital.

Author : Burton Bendiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Labour Affairs written by Burton Bendiner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that many multinational corporations establish overseas affiliates solely to escape unionization and take advantage of cheap labor, Bendiner assesses the response of the international labor movement to the post-World War II expansion of manufacturing multinationals and describes the world organizations that seek to further international cooperation among trade unions.

Author : Katarzyna Gajewska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134018371
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Labour Solidarity written by Katarzyna Gajewska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers. Contrary to much existing research and despite national differences, Gajewska examines how trade unions cooperate and the forms in which this cooperation take place. Drawing on four case studies illustrating experiences of Polish, German, British, Latvian and Swedish trade unions in various sectors and workers’ representatives at a multinational company, this book investigates the conditions under which trade unions and workers formulate their interests in non-national / regional terms, and analyzes the character, limits and potentials of solidarity in a transnational context. Seeking to generate a new theory of European integration of labour and to contribute to sociological approaches on the European integration and Europeanization of society, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, European integration, labour/industrial relations, trade unionism and sociology.

Author : Bengt Furåker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030387704
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Union Cooperation in Europe written by Bengt Furåker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses of two specific questions: the debates on statutory minimum wages and the Posting of Workers Directive. Drawing on empirical research, the authors take a comparative approach, considering national industrial relations regimes as well as individual sectors. With the ongoing processes of integration in Europe, it has become increasingly important for unions to cooperate with regard to employers and EU institutions. The authors illustrate the interconnections between national and European industrial relations, and explore the process of European integration in labour markets. Illustrating the potential for and difficulties involved in deepening trade union cooperation across Europe, this work is a vital read for trade unionists, researchers and students interested in European trade unionism and labour markets.

Author : John P. Windmuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Transnational Unionism written by John P. Windmuller and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on international trade unionism and its implications for USA trade unions - gives historical background of the movement, discusses membership, financing, leadership, publications, aims, activities, and relationship to the ICFTU, and includes a directory of international trade secretariats. One-page bibliography and references.

Author : N. Räthzel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137323051
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers written by N. Räthzel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of its workers in Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, and India. It investigates how neo-liberalisation has transformed the company into a promoter of lean production, at the expense of the workers' needs.

Author : Peter Fairbrother
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203814581
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unions and Globalisation written by Peter Fairbrother and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 239 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.