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Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions /

Organized labor faces enormous challenges in the increasingly global economy. The effect of multinational corporations, the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers in international commerce have all sparked widespread prophecies of trade union demise. This book, however, pr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gordon, Michael A. (Editor ), Turner, Lowell (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports ; no. 36.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: The Industrial Relations Environment for Transnational Cooperation
  • 1. Going Global / Gordon, Michael E. / Turner, Lowell
  • 2. Know Thine Enemy: Understanding Multinational Corporations as a Requirement for Strategic International Laborism / Ramsay, Harvie
  • 3. Labor Law and Cross-Border Cooperation among Unions / Servais, Jean-Michel
  • 4. Export Processing Zones / Gordon, Michael E.
  • Part II: Interorganizational Structures That Promote Transnational Cooperation
  • 5. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions: Bread, Freedom, and Peace / Gordon, Michael E.
  • 6. The International Trade Secretariats / Windmuller, John P.
  • 7. European Integration and the Europeanization of Labor / Martin, Andrew / Ross, George
  • Part III. The Practice of Transnational Cooperation
  • 8. From "Solidarity" to Convergence: International Trade Union Cooperation in the Media Sector / Wilson, Jim
  • 9. Organizing in Export Processing Zones: The Bibong Experience in the Dominican Republic / Jessup, David / Gordon, Michael E.
  • 10. Globalization and De-Unionization in Telecommunications: Three Case Studies in Resistance / Cohen, Larry / Early, Steve
  • 11. Solidarity across Borders: The UMWA's Corporate Campaign against Peabody and Hanson PLC / Zinn, Kenneth S.
  • 12 Local and Transnational Campaigns to End Sweatshop Practices / Anner, Mark
  • 13. Making Transnational Collaboration Work / Gordon, Michael E. / Turner, Lowell
  • Notes
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index