Research Catalog

Title

Transnational cooperation among labor unions / edited by Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gordon, Michael E.
• Turner, Lowell.

Description

xv, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cornell international industrial and labor relations report ; no. 36

Uniform Title

Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports ; no. 36.

Subject

• Labor unions
• International labor activities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Contents

The industrial relations environment for transnational cooperation. Going global / Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner. Know thine enemy : understanding multinational corporations as a requirement for strategic international laborism / Harvie Ramsay. Labor law and cross-border cooperation among unions / Jean-Michel Servais. Export processing zones / Michael E. Gordon -- Interorganizational structures that promote transnational cooperation. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions : bread, freedom, and peace / Michael E. Gordon. The international trade secretariats / John P. Windmuller. European integration and the europeanization of labor / Andrew Martin and George Ross -- The practice of transnational cooperation. From "solidarity" to convergence : international trade union cooperation in the media sector / Jim Wilson. Organizing in export processing zones : the Bibong experience in the Dominican Republic / David Jessup and Michael E. Gordon. Globalization and de-unionization in telecommunications : three case studies in resistance / Larry Cohen and Steve Early. Solidarity across borders : the UMWA's corporate campaign against Peabody and Hanson PLC / Kenneth Zinn. Local and transnational campaigns to end sweatshop practices / Mark S. Anner. Making transnational collaboration work / Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner.

Call Number

JBE 01-443

ISBN

• 0801437792 (cloth)
• 0801487064 (pbk)

LCCN

00010251

OCLC

44573340

Title

Transnational cooperation among labor unions / edited by Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner.

Imprint

Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, c2000.

Series

Cornell international industrial and labor relations report ; no. 36

Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports ; no. 36.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Added Author

Gordon, Michael E.

Turner, Lowell.

Research Call Number

JBE 01-443