The International Handbook of Labour Unions

Edited by Gregor Gall, Adrian Wilkinson and Richard Hurd

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since the 1970s, the spread of neo-liberalism across the world has radically reconfigured the relationship between unions, employers and the state. The contributors highlight that this is the major cause and effect of union decline and if there is to be any union revitalisation and return to former levels of influence, then unions need to respond in appropriate political and practical ways. Written in a clear and accessible style, the Handbook examines unions’ efforts to date in many of the major economies of the world, providing foundations for understanding each country.

Keywords: Business and Management; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781848448629
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781848448629.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Labour Unionism and Neo-liberalism

Gregor Gall, Richard Hurd and Adrian Wilkinson

Ch 2 Theories of Collective Action and Union Power

John Kelly

Ch 3 Union Renewal: Objective Circumstances and Social Action

Pauline Dibben and Geoffrey Wood

Ch 4 Pragmatism, Ideology or Politics? Unions’ and Workers’ Responses to the Imposition of Neo-liberalism in Argentina

Maurizio Atzeni and Pablo Ghigliani

Ch 5 Neo-liberal Evolution and Union Responses in Australia

David Peetz and Janis Bailey

Ch 6 Britain: How Neo-liberalism Cut Unions Down to Size

John McIlroy

Ch 7 Unions in China in a Period of Marketisation

Fang Lee Cooke

Ch 8 France: Union Responses to Neo-liberalism

Sylvie Contrepois

Ch 9 German Unions Facing Neo-liberalism: Between Resistance and Accommodation

Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten

Ch 10 India, Neo-liberalism and Union Responses – Unfinished Business and Protracted Struggles

Ernesto Noronha and David Beale

Ch 11 Russian Unions After Communism: A Study in Subordination

Sarah Ashwin

Ch 12 Neo-liberalism, Union Responses and the Transformation of the South Korean Labour Movement

Dae-oup Chang

Ch 13 Unions Facing and Suffering Neo-liberalism in the United States

Bob Bruno

Ch 14 The Crisis of Neo-liberalism and the American Labour Movement

Richard L. Trumka

Ch 15 Interaction between Labour Unions and Social Movements in Responding to Neo-liberalism

Bill Fletcher

Ch 16 Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism: Results and Prospects

Ronaldo Munck

Ch 17 A Future for the Labour Movement?

Lowell Turner

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eebook:13768

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().