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Varieties of Unionism
Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy
Edited by Carola Frege and John Kelly
228 pages
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Tables and Figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927014-9
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Hardback
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19 August 2004
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- Covers trade unions in the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain
- Chapters arranged thematically, and feature cross-national comparisons of five countries
- Written by international experts
As unions face an ongoing crisis all over the industrialized world, they have often been portrayed as outmoded remnants of an old economic structure. This book argues that despite structural shifts in the economy and in politics, unions retain important functions for capitalist economies as well as for political democracy. Union revitalization in the face of their current difficulties is therefore of fundamental importance.
The book charts the strategies unions are using to respond to global union decline and to revive their fortunes in five countries - US, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain - providing a wide range of institutional settings, union structures,
identities and union responses. It provides a rich source of documentation about union activity, but more importantly it goes beyond description to address two of the big questions in comparative research: How can we explain cross-country differences of union responses to global decline? And how effective are these actions in helping to revitalize the labour movements?
Union strategies and union revitalization outcomes varied strongly across countries and were shaped by national industrial relations institutions, as well as by the interactions between union, employer and state strategies. These findings support the argument for national divergence of the varieties of capitalism literature and challenge the globalization thesis which predicts a degree of convergence
in the fate of union movements across the advanced capitalist world. There is no single revitalization strategy that works well for all union movements; the same strategy is likely to produce different results in different countries. Moreover, evidence for variation in revitalization outcomes emerges most clearly when we adopt a multi-dimensional conceptualization of revitalization, moving beyond union membership and density to embrace economic and political power as well as the institutional dimension of union reform. Despite serious revitalization attempts in all countries the scale of revitalization is extremely modest when compared to the great upsurges of unionism in history.
Varieties of Unionism presents important research and analysis of union strategy for
academics and graduate students of Industrial Relations, Management, Politics, Political Economy, and Sociology.
Readership: Academics and graduate students of Industrial Relations, HRM, Politics, Political Economy, and Sociology.
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Edited by Carola Frege, Reader in Industrial Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Assistant Professor at the School for Management and Employment, Rutgers University, and John Kelly, Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics Contributors:
Lee Adler, Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Martin Behrens, Programme Director, European Employment Relations, Wirtschafts-und-Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut of the Hans Boeckler-Stiftung, Dusseldorf
Michael Fichter, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Free University of
Berlin
Carola Frege, Reader, Industrial Relations Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Greer, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Kerstin Hamann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Central Florida
Edmund Heery, Professor of Human Resource Management, Cardiff Business School
Richard Hurd, Professor and Director of Labor Studies, Cornell University
John Kelly, Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics and Poltiical Science
Nathan Lillie, Research Associate, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Miguel Martinez Lucio, Professor, Management Centre, University of Bradford
Lowell
Turner, Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University
Jeremy Waddington, Reader in Industrial Relations, University of Manachers Institute of Science and Technology
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"This book opens the way for a new phase of research and discussion among practitioners and scholars of industrial relations." - Transfer
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1: Lowell Turner: Why Revitalize? Labour's Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy
2: Martin Behrens, Kerstin Hamann, and Richard Hurd: Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization
3: Carola Frege and John Kelly: Union Strategies in Comparative Context
4: Edmund Heery and Lee Adler: Organizing the Unorganized
5: Michael Fichter and Ian Greer: Analyzing Social Partnership: A Tool of Union Revitalization?
6: Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly: Unions as Political Actors: A Recipe for Revitalization?
7: Martin Behrens, Richard Hurd, and Jeremy Waddington: Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization?
8: Carola Frege, Edmund Heery, and Lowell Turner: The New Solidarity? Trade Unions and Coalition Building in Five Countries
9: Nathan Lillie and Miguel Martinez Lucio: International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Approaches
10: John Kelly and Carola Frege: Conclusions: Varieties of Unionsim
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