Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780826454362
,
9781135842383
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context Series
Content:
Presenting an extensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, this contemporary text provides a firm basis for informed discussion about the place of trade unions in modern economies
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Unions in crisis, unions in renewal? -- 2 The American labour movement and the resurgence in union organizing -- 3 You just can't do it automatically: the transition to social movement unionism in the United States -- 4 Trade union innovation, adaptation and renewal in Australia: still searching for the holy membership grail -- 5 A near death experience: one union fights for life -- 6 From organizational breadth to depth? New Zealand's trade unions under the Employment Contracts Act -- 7 A story of crisis and change: the service and food workers union of Aotearoa -- 8 The dilemmas of social partnership and union organization: questions for British trade unions -- 9 Rhetoric and reality: the adoption of the organizing model in manufacturing, science and finance -- 10 Strategic dilemma: the state of union renewal in Canada -- 11 The revival of industrial unions in Canada: the extension and adaptation of industrial union practices to the new economy -- 12 Social movement unionism: beyond the organizing model -- 13 Globalization, trade union organization and workers' rights -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Fairbrother, Peter Trade Unions in Renewal Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780826454362
Language:
English
Keywords:
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