UID:
almafu_9959227760802883
Format:
1 online resource (303 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-37348-X
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1-134-44342-0
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9786612373480
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9786610202249
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0-203-40294-4
Series Statement:
Routledge/RIPE studies in global political economy
Content:
This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalization and this book analyzes the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Global Unions?Theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I International political economy and organized labour: approaches and theories; 1 Organized labour and the global political economy; 2 Work, production and social relations: repositioning the firm in the international political economy; 3 Towards an international political economy of labour; 4 Internationalization, industrial relations theory and international relations
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Part II National and regional strategies5 Organizing globally, organizing locally: union spatial strategy in a global economy; 6 Trade unions, globalization and training: initiatives in Britain and Brazil; 7 The international dimension of labour federation economic strategy in Canada and the United States 1947-2000; 8 Unions, capitals and states: competing (inter)nationalisms in North American and European integration; 9 International labour and regional integration in the Asia-Pacific; Part IIIThe global arena: unions and global dynamics
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10 The constraints on labour internationalism: contradictions and prospects 11 Labour movement renewal in the era of globalization: union responses in the South; 12 Peripheralizing labour: the ILO, WTO and the completion of the Bretton Woods project; 13 The varied paths to minimum global labour standards; 14 Labour as a global social force: past divisions and new tasks; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-7391-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-27008-1
Language:
English
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