The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation

The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation
Author: Heather Connolly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501736582

In The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation, Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martínez Lucio compare trade union responses to immigration and the related political and labour market developments in the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The labor movement is facing significant challenges as a result of such changes in the modern context. As such, the authors closely examine the idea of social inclusion and how trade unions are coping with and adapting to the need to support immigrant workers and develop various types of engagement and solidarity strategies in the European context. Traversing the dramatically shifting immigration patterns since the 1970s, during which emerged a major crisis of capitalism, the labor market, and society, and the contingent rise of anti-immigration sentiment and new forms of xenophobia, the authors assess and map how trade unions have to varying degrees understood and framed these issues and immigrant labor. They show how institutional traditions, and the ways that trade unions historically react to social inclusion and equality, have played a part in shaping the nature of current initiatives. The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation concludes that we need to appreciate the complexity of trade-union traditions, established paths to renewal, and competing trajectories of solidarity. While trade union organizations remain wedded to specific trajectories, trade union renewal remains an innovative, if at times, problematic and complex set of choices and aspirations.

Power, politics and influence at work

Power, politics and influence at work
Author: Tony Dundon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526146401

This book explores how power operates in workplace settings at local, national and transnational levels. It argues that how people are valued in and out of work is a political dynamic, which reflects and shapes how societies treat their citizens. Offering vital resources for activists and students on labour rights, employment issues and trade unions, this book argues that the influence workers can exert is changing dramatically and future challenges for change can be positive and progressive.

Research Handbook on Migration and Employment

Research Handbook on Migration and Employment
Author: Guglielmo Meardi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839107243

This insightful Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the core issues concerning the integration of migration and employment studies, highlighting the interdisciplinary and global perspectives required to understand the complexity of labour migration.

Missing Voice?

Missing Voice?
Author: Wilkinson, Adrian
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839105542

This timely book addresses the key debates and challenges surrounding the future of work, covering the macro, meso and micro levels of gig work. It provides a consideration of the ways in which technology is shaping the lives of those working in the gig and digital platform economy within the 21st century.

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
Author: Maurizio Atzeni
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2023-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839106581

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.

Protecting the Future of Work

Protecting the Future of Work
Author: Barry Colfer
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2023-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800712502

Protecting the Future of Work analyses the changes that worker protection institutions have undergone with the decline of traditional measures such as trade unions, mapping out the new systems and approaches to protect wages, conditions and job security.

The Third Way

The Third Way
Author: Anthony Giddens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745666604

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern politics.

Migrant Organising

Migrant Organising
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004464964

In Migrant Organising: Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage, Emma Martín-Díaz and Beltrán Roca explore recent developments in community unionism and solidarity networks among migrant workers in a post-Fordist context characterised by transnationalism and global chains. The contributions in this edited book describe different types of trade union strategies toward migrant workers and the rise of solidarity and bricolage initiatives in situations in which conventional union organising cannot succeed. Cases from Germany, Spain, Italy and Argentina reveal that the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations are the basis of new forms of union and extra-union intervention. Contributors include: Beltrán Roca, Emma Martín-Díaz, Simone Castellani, Mark Bergfeld, Juan Pablo Aris-Escarcena, Giulia Borraccino, Paula Dinorah Salgado, Alicia Reigada, Giuseppe D’Onofrio and Jon Las Heras.

Managing Diversity

Managing Diversity
Author: Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1544333080

The award-winning Managing Diversity uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective.