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Trade union responses to globalization [electronic resource] : a review by the Global Union Research Network / edited by Verena Schmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions.
- Globalization.
- Industrial relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : International Labour Office, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together papers from some of the leading national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides a valuable overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalization.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acronyms; About the authors/editors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editorial overview (Verena Schmidt); 1 Sustainability and unions: International trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level (Eberhard Schmidt); 2 Social partnership at the global level: Building and Wood Workers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements (Marion F. Hellmann); 3 Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis: Exploring implications for labour research and unions (Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa)
- 4 Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops (Anibel Ferus-Comelo)5 Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests: Shaping the corporation of tomorrow (Richard Tudway); 6 Multinational companies in Bulgaria: Impact on labour and social development (Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev); 7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining: The practice of multinational companies in Brazil (Clovis Scherer; 8 Trade and development in South Africa (Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tanya van Meelis)
- 9 Migration in the global economy: Challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions (Ann-Marie Lorde)10 European union enlargement, workers and migration: Implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland (Jane Hardy and Nick Clark); 11 More than bananas: Social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Uraba region of Colombia (Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough); 12 The labour platform: An alliance of trade unions in Turkey (Seyhan Erdogdu)
- 13 Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy (Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway)14 Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa (Esther de Haan and Michael Koen); Conclusion
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 92-2-119861-8
- OCLC:
- 700697579
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