The Prerequisites for Successful Worker Takeovers and Their Implications for Organised Labour

This book evaluates the effects of trade worker takeovers (WTOs)-the recuperation of workplaces by workers-on trade union power resources. Deploying a mixed methodological framework to identify the prerequisites for successful labour-strengthening WTOs and using an adaptation of the power resources approach as a theoretical framework, it critically evaluates the experiences of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the United Kingdom, the United Food and Commercial Workers Unions (UFCW) in the United States and the Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC (SMABC) in Brazil. It finds that, under certain circumstances, WTOs can strengthen the overall power resources of trade unions and identifies the prerequisites for success in that respect.

Summary

This book evaluates the effects of trade worker takeovers (WTOs)—the recuperation of workplaces by workers—on trade union power resources. Deploying a mixed methodological framework to identify the prerequisites for successful labour-strengthening WTOs and using an adaptation of the power resources approach as a theoretical framework, it critically evaluates the experiences of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the United Kingdom, the United Food and Commercial Workers Unions (UFCW) in the United States and the Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC (SMABC) in Brazil.
It finds that, under certain circumstances, WTOs can strengthen the overall power resources of trade unions and identifies the prerequisites for success in that respect.

Product details

• Authors: David O'Connell
• Publisher: Edition Rainer Hampp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9783985420667
• ISBN: 978-3-9854206-6-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 19 mm x 212 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Series: Labor and Globalization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Globalisierung, Unternehmen, USA, Grossbritannien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Workers, N3-Rabatt, Case Studies, Gewerkschaften, United Kingdom, Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung und Genossenschaften, trade, Trade Unions, liberalism, Mining Industry, Counter-Hegemony, ESOP-Legislation, Ownership-Power, Steelworkers, Worker Takeovers, worker participation, workplace recapture, Organisierte Arbeit, International Center for Development and Decent Work