 Building Transnational Coordinative UnionismD. Wells Working Papers from Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Current Issues Series Abstract: In the face of increasing corporate internationalism, and the implications for movement of production, capital, and jobs from one country to another, the union movement has increasingly faced changes to the nature of the worker-management relationship. Central to the changing relationship is the productivity motive. Job loss potential induces labour into 'productivity alliances' with management that may be seen as contradictory to labour's ideology. A recent article by Don Wells identifies these contradictions, the shift toward a more transnational approach to unionism, and the essential changes to intra-national unionism if labour is to respond effectively to 'borderless capital.' Wells looks at the required changes to North American labour unionism and the European works councils, and considers the effectiveness of various components of coordinative unionism (international trade secretariats, international codes of conduct). Keywords: TRADE UNIONS Industrial Relations Centre. Kingston; Ontario Canada K7P 3N6. 13p. (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:qkiris:21 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Current Issues Series Canada; Queen's University. School of Industrial Relations. School of Industrial Relations / Industrial Relations Centre. Kingston, Ontario Canada K7P 3N6. |
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