Trade union responses to globalization [[electronic resource] ] : a review by the Global Union Research Network / / edited by Verena Schmidt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910172239803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2007
• ISBN: 92-2-119861-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SchmidtVerena
• Disciplina: 337
• Soggetti: Labor unions; Globalization; Industrial relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acronyms; About the authors/editors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editorial overview (Verena Schmidt); 1 Sustainability and unions: International trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level (Eberhard Schmidt); 2 Social partnership at the global level: Building and Wood Workers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements (Marion F. Hellmann); 3 Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis: Exploring implications for labour research and unions (Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa); 4 Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops (Anibel Ferus-Comelo)5 Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests: Shaping the corporation of tomorrow (Richard Tudway); 6 Multinational companies in Bulgaria: Impact on labour and social development (Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev); 7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining: The practice of multinational companies in Brazil (Clovis Scherer; 8 Trade and development in South Africa (Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tanya van Meelis); 9 Migration in the global economy: Challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions (Ann-Marie Lorde)10 European union enlargement, workers and migration: Implications for trade unions in ; the United Kingdom and Poland (Jane Hardy and Nick Clark); 11 More than bananas: Social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Uraba region of Colombia (Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough); 12 The labour platform: An alliance of trade unions in Turkey (Seyhan Erdogdu); 13 Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy (Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway)14 Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa (Esther de Haan and Michael Koen); Conclusion
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together papers from some of the leading national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides a valuable overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalization.