ISBN:
9780826454379
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context Ser.
Series Statement:
Employment and work relations in context series
Parallel Title:
Print version Trade Unions in Renewal : A Comparative Study
DDC:
304
Keywords:
Labor unions
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Labor unions
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Labor unions ; Commonwealth countries
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Comparative industrial relations
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Labor unions ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an attempt
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Unions in crisis, unions in renewal?; 2 The American labour movement and the resurgence in union organizing; 3 You just can't do it automatically: the transition to social movement unionism in the United States; 4 Trade union innovation, adaptation and renewal in Australia: still searching for the holy membership grail; 5 A near death experience: one union fights for life
Description / Table of Contents:
6 From organizational breadth to depth? New Zealand's trade unions under the Employment Contracts Act7 A story of crisis and change: the service and food workers union of Aotearoa; 8 The dilemmas of social partnership and union organization: questions for British trade unions; 9 Rhetoric and reality: the adoption of the organizing model in manufacturing, science and finance; 10 Strategic dilemma: the state of union renewal in Canada; 11 The revival of industrial unions in Canada: the extension and adaptation of industrial union practices to the new economy
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Social movement unionism: beyond the organizing model13 Globalization, trade union organization and workers' rights; Index
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