A Global Union for Global Workers

Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping

Nathan Lillie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97747-0 (ISBN)

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Illustrates how unions in one industry successfully set global minimum wages and working conditions, and participated authoritatuively in global governance in their industry. This book highlights the potential for the labour movement to become an effective transitional force and participant in democratic global governance.

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization of union structures for mobilizing industrial action. This, in turn, led to global collective bargaining institutions and effective union participation in global regulatory politics. This study uses a variety of source and analytical techniques, relying heavily on interviews with union official and other maritime industry people in many countries.

Nathan Lillie is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His articles on international unionism and labor standards have appeared in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations, and Environment and Planning-A. He is currently researching the role of labor in global governance.

1. Global Union Strategies for a Global Industry 2. The Maritime Shipping Industry and Maritime Industrial Relations 3. Surveying the Literature 4. How to Catch the Capitalist on the Move: Implementing a Global Uniform Wage Scale on Flag of Convenience Ships 5. Bargaining Globally and Boycotting Locally: Transnational Networks and Global Unionism in Maritime Shipping 6. Seafarer Qualifications, Labor Market Power, and Global Regulatory Politics: Union and Employer Political Strategies for Shaping Access to Global Maritime Labor Markets 7. Dock Unions' Collective Self Defense and the FOC Campaign 8. Breaking No Eggs and Making No Omelettes: Transnational Union Strategies in the Global World Economy 9. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2006
Reihe/Serie	Studies in International Relations
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-97747-9 / 0415977479
ISBN-13	978-0-415-97747-0 / 9780415977470
Zustand	Neuware