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Labour worldwide in the era of globalization : alternative union models in the new world order

Title: Labour worldwide in the era of globalization : alternative union models in the new world order / edited by Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press ; Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999.

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xxii, 269 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Internationally the trade union movement is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually reinforcing processes - the ongoing world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neoliberalism; the collapse of communism and radical nationalism; the decline of the social-democratic or labour tradition - and by a globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned.
The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labour to recover or reinvent itself. They see this in terms of a labour response to the waves of energy coming from the new global social movements (women, ecology, human rights/democracy, and so on).

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International political economy series

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International political economy series.

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Contents

1. Labour Dilemmas and Labour Futures / Ronaldo Munck -- 2. The Crisis of Trade Union Representation: New Forms of Social Integration and Autonomy-Construction / Ana Maria Catalano -- 3. A New Task for the Unions: The Liberation of Time from Work / Andre Gorz -- 4. Multiple Identities and Multiple Strategies: Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy / Amrita Chhachhi and Renee Pittin -- 5. The Future of the US Labour Movement in an Era of Global Economic Integration / George DeMartino -- 6. The Russian Trade Unions: From Chaos to a New Paradigm / Kirill Buketov -- 7. The Future of the Japanese Automobile Industry: Coexistence with the World, Consumers and Employees / Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions -- 8. Five Alternative Scenarios for West European Unionism / Richard Hyman -- 9. The Labour Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa / Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster --
10. Restructuring of Labour and Trade Union Responses in Brazil / Jose Ricardo Ramalho -- 11. Labour, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan / Christopher Candland -- 12. Ecology and Labour: Towards a New Societal Paradigm / Laurie Adkin -- 13. Global Unionism: The Challenge / Vic Thorpe -- 14. Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order / Eric Lee -- 15. The New Social Unionism: A New Union Model for a New World Order / Peter Waterman.

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98028942

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Columbia University Libraries