Labour worldwide in the era of globalization : alternative union models in the new world order / edited by Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munck, Ronaldo.

Waterman, Peter, 1936-2017.

Series:

International political economy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions.

International division of labor.

International labor activities.

Physical Description:

xxii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

The trade union movement internationally is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually-reinforcing processes: the on-going world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neo-liberalism; the collapse of Communism and Radical Nationalism; the decline of the globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned. The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labor to recover or reinvent itself.

Contents:

Part I Context

1 Labour Dilemmas and Labour Futures / Ronaldo Munck 3

Part II Theoretical Perspectives

2 The Crisis of Trade Union Representation: New Forms of Social Integration and Autonomy-Construction / Ana Maria Catalano 27

3 A New Task for the Unions: The Liberation of Time from Work / Andre Gorz 41

4 Multiple Identities and Multiple Strategies: Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy / Amrita Chhachhi, Renee Pittin 64

Part III Labour West and East

5 The Future of the US Labour Movement in an Era of Global Economic Integration / George DeMartino 83

6 The Russian Trade Unions: From Chaos to a New Paradigm / Kirill Buketov 97

7 The Future of the Japanese Automobile Industry: Coexistence with the World, Consumers and Employees / Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions 107

8 Five Alternative Scenarios for West European Unionism / Richard Hyman 121

Part IV Labour South

9 The Labour Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa / Glenn Adler, Eddie Webster 133

10 Restructuring of Labour and Trade Union Responses in Brazil / Jose Ricardo Ramalho 158

11 Labour, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan / Christopher Candland 175

12 Ecology and Labour: Towards a New Societal Paradigm / Laurie Adkin 199

13 Global Unionism: The Challenge / Vic Thorpe 218

14 Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order / Eric Lee 229

Part VI Perspectives

15 The New Social Unionism: A New Union Model for a New World Order / Peter Waterman 247.

Notes:

A collection of 15 essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333654986

0312217684

OCLC:

41264204