Trade unions and democracy

Strategies and perspectives
Herausgeber: Harcourt, Mark; Wood, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069796
• ISBN-10: 0719069793
• Artikelnr.: 26154048

Autorenporträt

Mark Harcourt is Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at Waikato University in New Zealand. Geoffrey Wood is Professor in Human Resource Management in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction - Trade Unions and democracy: possibilities and
contradictions 2: Trade unions and theories of democracy 3: Neo-Liberal
reforms and accords: are they compatible with democracy? 4: Trade unions
and democracy: can the third way recast the lnk? 5: Unions and non-standard
employment 6: New forms of work and the representational gap: a Durban case
study 7: The changing impact and strength of the labour movement in
advanced societies 8: The U.S. and Canadian labour movements: markets vs.
states and societies 9: The rise and fall of the organizing model in the US
10: Union growth and reversal in newly industrialised countries: The case
of South Korea and peripheral workers 11: The rise of unions in
semi-industrialized countries: the cases of South Africa and Zimbabwe 12:
Social movement unionism 13: Unions and politics 14: Trade union democracy:
the dynamics of different forms 15: Unions and social partnerships 16:
Engagement or disengagement? unions and a new politics 17: Conclusion