Research Catalog

Title

Transnational trade unionism : building union power / edited by Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Levesque.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fairbrother, Peter.
• Hennebert, Marc-Antonin.
• Lévesque, Christian, 1958-

Description

xviii, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context ; 8

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context ; 8.

Subject

• Labor unions > History
• Labor unions and international relations > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Understanding transnational trade unionism / Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque and Marc-Antonin Hennebert -- Part I. Workplace Trade Unions: Bridging the Local to the Global: 2. Workers' power in global value chains: fighting sweatshop practices at Russell, Nike and Knights apparel / Mark Anner; 3. Building north-south transnational trade union alliances: prospects and challenges / Mélanie Dufour-Poirier et Christian Lévesque; 4. Trade union strategies in cross-border action : articulating institutional specificity with local power dynamics / Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray, Chrsitian Dufour and Adelheid Hege; 5. The strike at Renault Davia: a challenge for east-west trade union cooperation / M ichèle Descolonges -- Part II. National Trade Unions: Shaping New Forms of Solidarity: 6. Building transnational unionism: Australian transport maritime unions in the world / Peter Fairbrother; 7. Creating spaces for labour internationalism: national industrial unions in the southern hemisphere and their strategies / Armel Brice Adanhounme and Christian Lévesque; 8. Local actors and transnational structures: explaining trends in multinational company-level negotiations in Europe / Valeria Pulignano, Isabel Da Costa, Udo Rehfeldt, and Volker Telljohaan; 9. European trade unions and the long march through the institutions: from integration to contention? / Richard Hyman -- Part III. International Trade Unionism: Crafting Institutions for the 21st Century: 10. The international labour movement: structures and dynamics / Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick; 11. Transnational solidarity around global production networks?: reflections on the strategy of international framework agreements / Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen and Katharina Schiederig; g12. Opening the black box of cross-border union alliances: a case study / Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Reynald Bourque; 13. Labour standards in segmented markets: the construction industry in Delhi and Moscow / Nikolaus Hammer -- Part IV. Conclusion: 14. Futures of transnational unionism / Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Peter Fairbrother.

Call Number

JBE 13-788

ISBN

• 9780415818803 (hbk.)
• 041581880X (hbk.)
• 9780203580974 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 0203580974 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012036381

OCLC

812729285

Title

Transnational trade unionism : building union power / edited by Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Levesque.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Edition

First Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context ; 8

Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context ; 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fairbrother, Peter.

Hennebert, Marc-Antonin.

Lévesque, Christian, 1958-

Research Call Number

JBE 13-788