Trade unions in renewal : a comparative study / edited by Peter Fairbrother and Charlotte A.B. Yates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fairbrother, Peter.

Yates, Charlotte A. B.

Series:

Employment and work relations in context.

Employment and work relations in context series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions.

Labor unions--United States.

Labor unions--Commonwealth countries.

Comparative industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an attempt

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Unions in crisis, unions in renewal?; 2 The American labour movement and the resurgence in union organizing; 3 You just can't do it automatically: the transition to social movement unionism in the United States; 4 Trade union innovation, adaptation and renewal in Australia: still searching for the holy membership grail; 5 A near death experience: one union fights for life

6 From organizational breadth to depth? New Zealand's trade unions under the Employment Contracts Act7 A story of crisis and change: the service and food workers union of Aotearoa; 8 The dilemmas of social partnership and union organization: questions for British trade unions; 9 Rhetoric and reality: the adoption of the organizing model in manufacturing, science and finance; 10 Strategic dilemma: the state of union renewal in Canada; 11 The revival of industrial unions in Canada: the extension and adaptation of industrial union practices to the new economy

12 Social movement unionism: beyond the organizing model13 Globalization, trade union organization and workers' rights; Index

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published by Continuum [2003].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 1, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-84245-0

1-315-05894-4

0-8264-5437-2

1-135-84238-8

9781315058948

OCLC:

862049266