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One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.
List of contents
1. Anti-unionism: Contextual and Thematic Issues; Tony Dundon and Gregor Gall PART I: HISTORICAL APPROACHES 2. Employer Opposition in the US: Anti-union Campaigning from the 1950s; John Logan 3. From Organised to Disorganised Capital? British Employer Associations, 1897-2010; Alan McKinlay 4. Economists Turn Against Unions: Historical Institutionalism to Neo-classical Individualism; Gerald Friedman PART II: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES 5. Anti-Unionism in a Coordinated Market Economy: the Case of Germany; Martin Behrens and Heiner Dribbusch 6. Employers Against Unions: the British Experience of Union Victimization; Gregor Gall 7. Beyond Union Avoidance? Exploring the Dynamics of Double-breasting Voice Regimes in Ireland; Niall Cullinane, Tony Dundon, Eugene Hickland, Tony Dobbins and Jimmy Donaghey 8. Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the US; Kim Moody 9.The State Against Unions: Australia's Neo-liberalism, 1996-2007; Rae Cooper and Bradon Ellem 10. Colombia: the Most Dangerous Place to be a Union Member; Daniel Blackburn and Miguel Puerto 11. Waves of Anti-unionism in South Korea; Chris Rowley and Kiu Sik Bae 12. Employer Anti-unionism in Democratic Indonesia; Michele Ford
About the author
Kiu Sik Bae, Korea Labour Institute in Seoul, South Korea
Martin Behrens, Hans Böckler Foundation (WSI), Germany
Daniel Blackburn, ICTUR
Rae Cooper, University of Sydney Business School, Australia
Niall Cullinane, Queen's University Management School, Northern Ireland
Tony Dobbins, Bangor University, Wales
Jimmy Donaghey, University of Warwick, UK
Heiner Dribbusch, Hans Böckler Foundation (WSI), Germany
Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney, Australia
Michele Ford, University of Sydney, Australia
Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts, USA
Eugene Hickland, National University of Ireland, Ireland
John Logan, San Francisco State University, USA
Alan McKinlay, Newcastle University, UK
Kim Moody, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Miguel Puerto , lawyer
Chris Rowley, City University, UK
Summary
One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.
