Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman

Gebundenes Buch

Trade Unions in Western Europe

Hard Times, Hard Choices

Beschreibung

The book examines trade unions in ten European countries: Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. It explores their historical evolution, the current challenges which they face, such as membership loss and a weakening of collective bargaining, and their response to these challenges.

Autor

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick is a former international trade union official. Since obtaining her PhD at the University of Warwick she has been teaching at Birkbeck College. She is one of the world authorities on international trade unionism, and her work has been cited by scholars and practitioners in many countries. She is Board Member and European Regional Representative for the Research Committee on Labour Movements, International Sociological Association. Richard Hyman, formerly at the University of Warwick, is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and founding editor of the European Journal of Industrial Relations. He has written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, trade unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy, and is author of a dozen books as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His comparative study Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class, and Society (Sage, 2001) is widely cited by scholars working in this field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 4mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644414
• ISBN-10: 0199644411
• Artikelnr.: 37728189