Research Catalog

Title

Trade union responses to globalization : a review by the Global Union Research Network / edited by Verena Schmidt.

Publication

Geneva : International Labour Office, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schmidt, Verena.
• International Labour Office.
• Global Union Research Network.

Description

xx, 195 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Globalization has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom and Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fair globalization, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more."
• "Above all, this book shows how trade unions are key players in influencing the rules to achieve a fair globalization, while also playing a paramount role in implementing and enforcing these rules."--Jacket.

Subject

• Labor unions
• Globalization
• Industrial relations
• trade unions
• globalism
• industrial relations
• Gewerkschaft
• Globalisierung
• Arbeitsbeziehungen
• Multinationales Unternehmen
• globalization
• multinational enterprise
• workers rights
• trade union rights
• trade union role
• international trade union
• developed countries
• developing countries
• mondialisation
• entreprise multinationale
• droits des travailleurs
• droits syndicaux
• rôle du syndicat
• syndicat international
• pays développés
• pays en développement
• globalización
• empresa multinacional
• derechos de los trabajadores
• derechos sindicales
• papel del sindicato
• sindicato internacional
• países desarrollados
• países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

• ILO pub.
• Pub OIT.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sustainability and unions: international trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level / Eberhard Schmidt -- Social partnership at the global level : Building and Woodworkers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements / Marion F. Hellmann -- Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis : exploring implications for labour research and unions / Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa -- Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops / Anibel Ferus-Comelo -- Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests : shaping the corporation of tomorrow / Richard Tudway -- Multinational companies in Bulgaria : impact on labour and social development / Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev -- Freedom of association and collective bargaining : the practice of multinational companies in Brazil / Clóvis Scherer -- Trade and development in South Africa / Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tany van Meelis -- Migration in the global economy : challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions / Ann-Marie Lorde -- European Union enlargement, workers and migration : implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland / Jane Hardy and Nick Clark -- More than bananas : social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Urabá region of Colombia / Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough -- The Labour Platform : an alliance of trade unions in Turkey / Seyhan Erdoğdu -- Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy / Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway -- Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa / Esther de Haan and Michael Koen.

ISBN

• 9789221198604
• 922119860X

LCCN

2008365232

OCLC

• ocn192042457
• 192042457
• SCSB-1462206

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library