Trade Unions and Democracy - Strategies and Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Mark Harcourt is Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at Waikato University in New Zealand. Geoffrey Wood is Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School, and Overseas Associate of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa Klappentext Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction - Trade Unions and democracy: possibilities and contradictions2: Trade unions and theories of democracy3: Neo-Liberal reforms and accords: are they compatible with democracy?4: Trade unions and democracy: can the third way recast the lnk?5: Unions and non-standard employment6: New forms of work and the representational gap: a Durban case study7: The changing impact and strength of the labour movement in advanced societies8: The U.S. and Canadian labour movements: markets vs. states and societies9: The rise and fall of the organizing model in the US10: Union growth and reversal in newly industrialised countries: The case of South Korea and peripheral workers11: The rise of unions in semi-industrialized countries: the cases of South Africa and Zimbabwe 12: Social movement unionism13: Unions and politics14: Trade union democracy: the dynamics of different forms15: Unions and social partnerships16: Engagement or disengagement? unions and a new politics17: Conclusion

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• Autori: Mark Harcourt, Mark Wood Harcourt
• Con la collaborazione di: Mark Harcourt (Editore), Harcourt Mark (Editore), Geoffrey Wood (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9780719069796
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6979-6
• Pagine: 432
• Serie: Perspectives on Democratizatio; Perspectives on Democratic Practice; Perspectives on Democratizatio
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political structures: democracy, Trade Unions, Political structure and processes, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety