Labour Worldwide
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-65498-9 (ISBN)
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This work presents an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognizing the crisis that an informatized and globalized capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organization and action in the 21st century. Contributions by academics and unionists from different world areas propose alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class (es), to women, democracy , ecology, internationalism.
RONALDO MUNCK is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Liverpool. His books include Marx at 2000 and Politics and Dependency in the Third World. PETER WATERMAN now retired, worked at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. He worked for the World Federation of Trade Unions in the 1960s and was editor/publisher of the Newsletter of International Labour Studies in the 1980s. He has published widely on labour movements in the third world and internationally. His next book will be From Labour Internationalism to Global Solidarity: Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalism.
List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors PART I: CONTEXT Labour Dilemmas and Labour Futures; R.Munck PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES The Crisis of Trade Union Representation; A.M.Catalano A New Task for the Unions; A.Gorz Multiple Identities and Multiple Strategies; A.Chhachhi and R.Pittin PART III: LABOUR WEST AND EAST The Future of the U.S. Labour Movement in an Era of Global Economic Integration; G.DeMartino The Russian Trade Unions; K.Buketov The Future of the Japanese Automobile Industry; Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions Five Alternative Scenarios for West European Unionism; R.Hyman PART IV: LABOUR SOUTH The Labour Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa; G.Alder & E.Webster The Restructuring of Labour and Trade Union Responses in Brazil; J.R.Ramalho Labour, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan; C.Candland PART V: KEY ISSUES Ecology and Labour; L.Adkin Global Unionism; V.Thorpe Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order; E.Lee PART VI: PERSPECTIVES The New Social Unionism; P.Waterman Index
| Reihe/Serie | Macmillan International Political Economy S. |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | biography |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 521 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-333-65498-6 / 0333654986 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-65498-9 / 9780333654989 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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