Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions

Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions
Author: Michael E. Gordon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801437793

Organized labour faces many challenges in the increasingly global economy, including the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers. This text, however, presents evidence that unions can survive and grow if labour is willing to co-operate across national borders. The book is a study of such co-operation as an effective weapon against the exploitation of workers in today's world.

Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?

Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?
Author: Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783034301121

The history of international free trade union organisations during the first two decades of the Cold War is an important but often neglected aspect of the development of post-war labour and liberalism. In this path-breaking book, Rodríguez García fills this void in the historical literature by offering a comparative analysis of two cases, the European Regional Organisation (ERO) and the Inter-American Regional Workers' Organisation (ORIT), which were created in the early 1950s as regional branches of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). The author employs the term 'labour liberalism' to describe their wide variety of functions. She argues that social democratic and reformist trade unions, which made up the bulk of ICFTU members, were fundamentally shaped by liberal values, even while calling for the active participation of organised labour in the planning and implementation of projects promoting liberal democracy and socio-economic development at home and abroad. By placing international free trade unionism centre stage, this book adds significantly to our understanding of post-war labour and liberalism.

Workers of the World Undermined

Workers of the World Undermined
Author: Beth Sims
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780896084292

This book blows the lid off the AFL-CIO's international efforts to forestall the formation of independent worker's organizations in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe--an effort that harms workers both in this country and overseas.

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization
Author: Peter Waterman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349270636

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism.

Wobblies of the World

Wobblies of the World
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: International labor activities
ISBN: 9780745399607

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

The Internationalisation of the Labour Question

The Internationalisation of the Labour Question
Author: Stefano Bellucci
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 303028235X

This edited collection is a global history of workers’ organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation of Trade Unions were formed. This historical moment represents a caesura in labour history as it epitomises the beginning of what the editors and the contributors in this book call the internationalisation of the labour question. The case studies in this centenary volume analyse the relationship between global workers’ organisations and the new ideological confrontation between liberal capitalism, socialism and communism since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Workers’ organisations, trade unions in particular, grew in importance and managed to organise internationally, forming alliances cemented by ideology and sustained by international institutional bodies or centrals. In the nascent capitalist versus communist struggle, trade unions thrived. Is it mere coincidence that today’s decline of unionism coincides with the end of ideological antagonism? This book emphasises important global labour issues such as gender as well as international workers’ histories from Latin America, Asia and Africa.

The New World of Work

The New World of Work
Author: Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800888058

Actors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.

Workers of the World

Workers of the World
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047442849

The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world. The following questions are central: ▪ What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition? ▪ Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development? ▪ What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History?

Protection of Workers' Personal Data

Protection of Workers' Personal Data
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221103295

An ILO code of practice

Working from Home

Working from Home
Author: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN: 9789220337103

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world's workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades. This report seeks to improve understanding of home work as well as to offer policy guidance that can pave the way to decent work for homeworkers both old and new