Global Unions?: Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy

by Harrod,Jeffrey; Harrod,Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780415288118
• ISBN10: 0415288118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalisation and this book analyses the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Series editors' preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
List of abbreviations	xviii
PART I International political economy and organized labour: approaches and theories	1	(80)
Organized labour and the global political economy	3	(26)
Jeffrey Harrod
Robert O'brien
Work, production and social relations: repositioning the firm in the international political economy	29	(20)
Louise Amoore
Towards an international political economy of labour	49	(15)
Jeffrey Harrod
Internationalization, industrial relations theory and international relations	64	(17)
Nigel Haworth
Steve Hughes
PART II National and regional strategies	81	(84)
Organizing globally, organizing locally: union spatial strategy in a global economy	83	(17)
Andrew Herod
Trade unions, globalization and training: initiatives in Britain and Brazil	100	(15)
Janet Hannah
Maria Clara Bueno Fischer
The international dimension of labour federation economic strategy in Canada and the United States 1947--2000	115	(15)
Ian Robinson
Unions, capitals and states: competing (inter)nationalisms in North American and European integration	130	(21)
Dimitris Stevis
International labour and regional integration in the Asia-Pacific	151	(14)
Nigel Haworth
Steve Hughes
PART III The global arena: unions and global dynamics	165	(86)
The constraints on labour internationalism: contradictions and prospects	167	(18)
Mine Eder
Labour movement renewal in the era of globalization: union responses in the South	185	(19)
Robert Lambert
Peripheralizing labour: the ILO, WTO and the completion of the Bretton Woods project	204	(17)
Rorden Wilkinson
The varied paths to minimum global labour standards	221	(14)
Robert O'brien
Labour as a global social force: past divisions and new tasks	235	(16)
Dan Gallin
Bibliography	251	(26)
Index	277