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| Author | : S. Moore |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2010-12-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0230294804 |
The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness.
| Author | : Paul Hampton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2015-06-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317554345 |
This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers’ climate action. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.
| Author | : Steve Early |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1583674276 |
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor’s past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book’s insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform.
| 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
| Author | : Len McCluskey |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 118 |
| Release | : 2020-01-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1788737881 |
In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic organisations. He considers the changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities of automation and why being trade unionists can enable us to help shape the future. He sets out why being a trade unionist is as much a political role as it is an industrial one and why the historic links between the labour movement and the Labour Party matter. Ultimately, McCluskey explains how being a trade unionist means putting equality at work and in society front and centre, fighting for an end to discrimination, and to inequality in wages and power.
| Author | : Jesper Jørgensen |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2023-02-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3031089871 |
Providing a Nordic historical perspective, this collection aims to further our understanding of trade union activism and its role in modern society. Contributions from a range of leading scholars analyse the organisational conditions of mobilisation that were deployed by Nordic unionists, and explore the way that they interacted with other forms of social and political protest during the twentieth century. Covering illegal or so-called wildcat strikes, blockades, demonstrations and other activist measures, the authors examine the way that trade union activism in the Nordic countries aimed to move the political combat zone from the meeting rooms of the respective confederations into the streets and the public domain. The collection focuses on cases from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, but comparisons are also made with countries such as Iceland, Germany, and the USA. Exploring the ways in which political parties have intervened in Nordic trade union activism since the early twentieth century, this unique collection offers new insights for those interested in labour market dynamics and the complex process behind the formation of salary and employment conditions.
| Author | : J. Kraus |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2007-12-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 023061003X |
In this book, top scholars look at the efficacy of trade union and worker protest in overthrowing authoritarian governments in Africa. The analytical introduction and case studies from major African countries argue that unions were often the most important single social force in the democratization process.
| Author | : Robert M. Schwartz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Heather Connolly |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9783034301015 |
Drawing on ethnographic research in the breakaway trade union movement Fédération des Syndicats Solidaires, Unitaires et Démocratiques (SUD), this book explores broad questions of trade union renewal in France. The SUD movement emerged in 1988 with the avowed intention to revitalise French trade unionism. Since its emergence the movement has increasingly been cited as a prime instigator of social unrest in France. In a wider context of union decline in Europe, this research considers to what extent and in what ways SUD has been able to develop and sustain collective organisation, identity and mobilisation. Research was conducted in a local-level union of SUD-Rail, a union which emerged in the French public railway sector in 1996 from an ideological split within one of France's largest trade union confederations, the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). From an ethnographic perspective, the book contributes a thick description of trade unionism at the local level and, drawing on social movement theory, analyses activists' attempts to confront and renew practices and structures in trade unionism. The book evaluates the success of the SUD movement and the prospects for a more sustained renewal of French trade unionism.
