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Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization

Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Ronaldo Munck

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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  2. Peter Waterman

    1. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Labour Dilemmas and Labour Futures

      • Ronaldo Munck
      Pages 3-23

  5. Labour South

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. The Labour Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa

      • Glenn Adler, Eddie Webster
      Pages 133-157

    3. Restructuring of Labour and Trade Unions in Brazil

      • José Ricardo Ramalho
      Pages 158-174

    4. Labour, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan

      • Christopher Candland
      Pages 175-196

  6. Key Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Ecology and Labour: Towards a New Societal Paradigm

      • Laurie Adkin
      Pages 199-217

    3. Global Unionism: The Challenge

      • Vic Thorpe
      Pages 218-228

    4. Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order

      • Eric Lee
      Pages 229-244
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About this book

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism.

Reviews

For anyone interested in the revitalization of labor, ties between labor and other social movements, or labor transnationalism, it is a worthwhile to read at least some of this book. Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Ronaldo Munck

  • Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands

    Peter Waterman

About the editors

LAURIE ADKIN Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada GLENN ADLER Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department and a staff associate of the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg KIRILL BUKETOV Editor-in-Chief of Rabochaya Politika (Workers Politics/Labour Policy), Russia CHRISTOPHER CANDLAND Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of California ANA MARIA CATALANO Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires AMRITA CHHACHHI Lecturer in Women's Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague GEORGE DEMARTINO Assistant Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver ANDRÉ GORZ considered a prominent post-industrial utopian RICHARD HYMAN Member of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick THE CONFEDERATION OF JAPAN AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNIONS (JAW) formed in 1972 and is the confederation of the enterprise-based labour unions of automobile manufacturers ERIC LEE Member of Kibbutz Ein Dor, Israel RENEE PITTIN Associate Professor in the Women and Development Programme, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague JOSE RICARDO RAMALHO Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil VIC THORPE General Secretary of International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions(ICEM) EDDIE WEBSTER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand

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