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Monograph on international trade unionism and its implications for USA trade unions - gives historical background of the movement, discusses membership, financing, leadership, publications, aims, activities, and relationship to the ICFTU, and includes a directory of international trade secretariats. One-page bibliography and references.
Monograph on international trade unionism and its implications for USA trade unions - gives historical background of the movement, discusses membership, financing, leadership, publications, aims, activities, and relationship to the ICFTU, and includes a directory of international trade secretariats. One-page bibliography and references.
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues. Through the work of leading international specialists, this collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of transnational trade union action and provides analytical and conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments in transition and developing countries with original analyses from the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of institution building and challenges the conventional national based forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.
'Global Unions' features research from scholars around the world on the range of innovative strategies that unions use to adapt to different circumstances, industries, countries, and corporations in taking on the challenge of mounting cross-border campaigns against global firms.
As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013) displayed the force of his insight into the dynamics of modern economics and technology. First published in 1972, this book considers the opportunities which allow unions to command an increasing share in decisions that shape the worker’s destiny. Chapters include discussions on the multinational corporations, industrial democracy and the ideas behind collective bargaining.
Based on the account of trade union representatives from the mining sector in Ghana and Mexico, this paper offers a re-reading of the debate on transnational unionism between developing global coalitions and local networks. Trade union strategies are captured under three analytical fields: spaces of transnational unionism, modes of interaction, and frames of reference. The paper's objective is to understand how national trade unions articulate the local and the global, and identify the factors that push and pull them into the transnational space. While trade unions in both countries have undergone a process of union renewal, their transnational strategy differs: Ghanaians are engaged in capacity building and Mexicans in coalition building. Strategies of transnational unionism are shaped by national contingencies. First, the Ghanaian trade union intervenes mainly at the African regional level through education and training programs for the rank and file, while the Mexican trade union is present at both the North-American regional and transnational levels, particularly through solidarity campaigns. Second, while Ghanaians maintain weak ties with other trade unions, the Mexicans are engaged in a wide repertoire of action with the North-American trade unions and international federations. Third, Ghanaians conceive their interests on the basis of a strong clan-based identity and see transnational unionism as a mean to increase their resources, while Mexicans build broader coalitions based upon class identity. In both cases, strategies of transnational unionism go beyond the dichotomy of the local and the global. They are socially constructed, locally embedded and are shaped by the dynamics of the political economy in which the trade unions are rooted and the supranational structures of opportunity available to them.