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Varieties of Unionism - Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy (Hardcover, New)
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Varieties of Unionism - Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy (Hardcover, New)
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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 use 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 labor 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 inrevitalization 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
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