Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization Alternative Union Models in the New World Order

by Munck, Ronaldo; Waterman, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780312217686
• ISBN10: 0312217684
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The trade union movement internationally is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually-reinforcing processes: the on-going world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neo-liberalism; the collapse of Communism and Radical Nationalism; the decline of the globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned. The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labor to recover or reinvent itself.

Author Biography

Ronaldo Munck is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool.

Peter Waterman is Senior Lecturer in Politics of Alternative Development Strategies at the Institure of Social Science, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(6)
Acknowledgements	xv	(2)
List of Abbreviations	xvii	(2)
Notes on the Contributors	xix
PART I CONTEXT	3	(24)
1 Labour Dilemmas and Labour Futures	3	(24)
Ronaldo Munck
PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES	27	(56)
2 The Crisis of Trade Union Representation: New Forms of Social Integration and Autonomy-Construction	27	(14)
Ana Maria Catalano
3 A New Task for the Unions: The Liberation of Time from Work	41	(23)
Andre Gorz
4 Multiple Identities and Multiple Strategies: Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy	64	(19)
Amrita Chhachhi
Renee Pittin
PART III LABOUR WEST AND EAST	83	(50)
5 The Future of the US Labour Movement in an Era of Global Economic Integration	83	(14)
George DeMartino
6 The Russian Trade Unions: From Chaos to a New Paradigm	97	(10)
Kirill Buketov
7 The Future of the Japanese Automobile Industry: Coexistence with the World, Consumers and Employees	107	(14)
Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions
8 Five Alternative Scenarios for West European Unionism	121	(12)
Richard Hyman
PART IV LABOUR SOUTH	133	(66)
9 The Labour Movement, Radical Reform and the Transition to Democracy in South Africa	133	(25)
Glenn Adler
Eddie Webster
10 Restructuring of Labour and Trade Union Responses in Brazil	158	(17)
Jose Ricardo Ramalho
11 Labour, Industry and the State in India and Pakistan	175	(24)
Christopher Candland
PART V KEY ISSUES	199	(48)
12 Ecology and Labour: Towards a New Societal Paradigm	199	(19)
Laurie Adkin
13 Global Unionism: The Challenge	218	(11)
Vic Thorpe
14 Trade Unions, Computer Communications and the New World Order	229	(18)
Eric Lee
PART VI PERSPECTIVES	247	(18)
15 The New Social Unionism: A New Union Model for a New World Order	247	(18)
Peter Waterman
Index	265