Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

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.

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Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

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.

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Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312217686
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 02/15/1999
Series: International Political Economy Series
Edition description: 1999
Pages: 269
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Ronaldo Munck is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool.

Peter Waterman is Senior Lecturer in Politics of Alternative Development Strategies at the Institure of Social Science, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Context
• Labor Dilemmas and Labor Futures--R. Munck
Part II: Theoretical Perspectives
• The Crisis of Trade Union Representation: New Forms of Social Integration and Autonomy-Construction--A. Catalano
• A Task for the Unions: The Liberation of Time from Work--A. Gorz
• Multiple Identities and Multiple Strategies: Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy--A Chhachhi & R. Pittin
Part III: Labor West and East
• The Future of the US Labor Movement in an Era of Global Economic Integration--G. DeMartino
• The Russian Trade Unions: From Chaos to a New Paradigm--K. Buketov
• The Future of the Japanese Automobile Industry: Coexistence with the World Consumers and Employers--Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Union
• Five Alternative Scenarios for West European Unionism--R. Hyman
Part IV: Labor South
• The Labor Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa--G. Alder & E. Webster
• The Restructuring of Labor and Trade Union Responses in Brazil--J. Ramalho
• Labor, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan--C. Candland
Part V: Key Issues
• Ecology and Labor: Towards a New Social Paradigm--L. Adkin
• Global Unionism: The Challenge--V. Thorpe
• Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order--E. Lee
Part VI: Perspectives
• The New Social Unionism: A New Union Model for a New World Order--P. Waterman
• Index

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