Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context #10)

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Synopsis
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues. Through the work of leading international specialists, this collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of transnational trade union action and provides analytical and conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments in transition and developing countries with original analyses from the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of institution building and challenges the conventional national based forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Copyright:
2013

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781136681912
Related ISBNs:
9781138340879, 9780415818803, 9780203580974
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Taylor
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Peter Fairbrother
Edited by:
Christian Lévesque
Edited by:
Marc-Antonin Hennebert

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