Young Workers and Trade Unions

Young Workers and Trade Unions
Author: A. Hodder
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137429534

This book provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people, and views and opinions young people hold relating to collective representation. It features a selection of specific national cases of high relevance to contemporary debates of precariousness, trade union revitalization strategies and austerity policies.

Danish Trade Unionism 1870-1940

Danish Trade Unionism 1870-1940
Author: Knud Knudsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788772107363

An introduction to early Danish trade unionism 1870-1940. Before the Second World War Danish workers were among the best organized in Europe. It is the high level of unionisation which makes Danish trade unionism 1870-1940 an interesting case, in particular the high level of unionisation of unskilled workers, male and female, in a trade union movement based on the craft-principle. In this book key issues of Danish trade unions before 1940 have been examined in order to understand and explain this particular case of successful trade unionism in Europe before 1940. In eight chapters the book examines the organisational structures of Danish trade unions, Scandinavian and international cooperation, the dominance of skill, agitation and ideology of trade unionism, the impact of strikes and industrial conflicts, trade unions and politics, womens work and identities and the work and organisation of unskilled workers -- thereby seeking to explain the success of Danish trade unionism before 1940.

Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
Author: Mary Hilson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785334972

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic model” can obscure the fact that experiences of work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here represent an ambitious intervention in labour historiography and European history, exploring themes such as work, unions, politics and migration from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Quiet Politics and Business Power

Quiet Politics and Business Power
Author: Pepper D. Culpepper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139491857

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs and the unraveling of compromises between workers and managers. But the public rarely pays attention to issues of corporate control. As a result, political parties and legislatures are largely absent from this domain. Instead, organized managers get to make the rules, quietly drawing on their superior lobbying capacity and the deference of legislators. These tools, not campaign donations, are the true founts of managerial political influence.

Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1950

Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1950
Author: Vibeke Sørensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788772896618

Historian and geographer Sorensen (1952-95) wrote her analysis of Danish political policy towards the Marshall Plan during the middle 1980s, but Rudiger says it continues to be essential reading for historians interested in the immediate postwar period. The new edition drops her chapter on COCOM, because more recent studies have made in superfluous. The rest of the study remains intact. It is not indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR