Trade Unions and Regions

Trade Unions and Regions

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  • Author: Christian Lévesque
  • Publisher: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
  • ISBN: 9780367370121
  • Category : Labor unions
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses pressing questions concerned with the conditions for better work and a humane society. The focus is on the capacities of unions to address questions relating to regional governance, in both supranational and sub-national regions. It examines workers and their unions in a variety of contexts: multinationals, industries, workplaces, and communities. The authors address the experiments that can be initiated by unions, governments, or employers and the ways in which collective organisations engage to address these matters in regional contexts. The analysis takes as a starting point the fracturing and divisions evident in various regions, in Australia, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and USA. The contributors propose novel analyses with lessons for unions. It should be of interest to union activists and leaders, political parties, governments, and those who make decisions in and about regions. Researchers and students of labour markets, political mobilisation, and employment relations will take the analyses further.


Union Retreat and the Regions

Union Retreat and the Regions

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  • Author: Ron Martin
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135074437
  • Category : Architecture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography


Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region

Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region

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  • Author: Byoung-Hoon Lee
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429576080
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation. However, this process is not universal, including in some countries of Asia, where trade unions are closely aligned with the interests of the dominant political party and the state. This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country, full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen. Key questions then considered include the challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in each country, the extent to which these are a result of global or local developments and the actions being taken by trade unions and worker representative bodies to cope with the challenges. This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Keith Thurley, London School of Economics.


Union Retreat and the Regions

Union Retreat and the Regions

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  • Author: Ron L. Martin
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Great Britain
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling memberships and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organized labour, paying particular attention to the resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas, the impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions, the shrinking landscape of industrial militancy, the geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations, and the link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.


Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition

Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition

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  • Author: S. Ashwin
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 0230598358
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Many commentators expected the Russian trade unions to collapse along with the system of which they were an integral part, but the trade unions survived the storms of the Yeltsin era by adopting a strategy of 'social partnership'. This book, based on case-study and survey research in eight Russian regions, provides a detailed account of the development of trade unionism in Russia since the collapse of the soviet system. Against the background of the role of the trade unions in the soviet system, the book reviews the political role, structure and functions of the trade unions, development of social partnership at federal and regional levels, and provides a detailed account of the activity of the trade unions at the level of enterprise. The book concludes with a critical assessment of the Russian unions' strategy of 'social partnership' and locates it in comparative perspective.


Trade Union Revitalisation

Trade Union Revitalisation

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  • Author: Craig Phelan
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9783039110094
  • Category : Labor unions
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 588

A comprehensive introduction to the state of trade unionism in the world today. Leading labour scholars discuss the health of the trade union movement, the present political and economic climate for trade union advancement, the dominant revitalisation strategies, and future prospects for each nation.


The International Directory of the Trade Union Movement

The International Directory of the Trade Union Movement

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  • Author: A. P. Coldrick
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1400

International directory of trade unions - arranged by region and country, includes descriptions of trade union federations and international trade unions, together with information on historical evolution of trade unionism and on labour relations systems. ILO mentioned.


Trade Unions in Renewal

Trade Unions in Renewal

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  • Author: Peter Fairbrother
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135842450
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

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 to develop a distinctive approach. This book aims to provide a thorough grounding for informed discussion and debate about the position and place of trade unions in modern economies.


Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870–2000

Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870–2000

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  • Author: Derek H. Aldcroft
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1351878360
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 237

What do unions do and why do they do it? Do they seek to maximise profit for their members, or to obtain better working conditions that benefit society as a whole? Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver here provide one of the first sustained studies of the effects of union activities in terms of economic performance and the impact on the business world. From the rise of the British mass trade union movement in the 1870s to the present day, the book examines the main trends in union development and structure, and the core strategies unions have used to achieve their objectives: the use of strikes, work rules and restrictive practices; workers’ attitudes to innovation; the wage bargaining process. Important assessments are made of the influence of these strategies on investment, innovation, economic growth, and the cost of structure and competitiveness of the UK economy.


Change in Trade Unions

Change in Trade Unions

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  • Author: R. Undy
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000804143
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 433

Originally published in 1981, this book explains the factors which precipitated and effected changes in the major dimensions of union activity in Britain since 1960. The authors use a series of comparative case studies to examine change in the government, growth, mergers, character and bargaining structures of British unions. The central theme of the book is that unions are far freer to determine their own behaviour than was commonly supposed. In examining changes in unions, the authors develop concepts and terms which provide new insights into union behaviour.