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Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and
Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions
in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions
working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this
level of governance. The book addresses pressing questions
concerned with the conditions for better work and a humane society.
The focus is on the capacities of unions to address questions
relating to regional governance, in both supranational and
sub-national regions. It examines workers and their unions in a
variety of contexts: multinationals, industries, workplaces, and
communities. The authors address the experiments that can be
initiated by unions, governments, or employers and the ways in
which collective organisations engage to address these matters in
regional contexts. The analysis takes as a starting point the
fracturing and divisions evident in various regions, in Australia,
Canada, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and USA. The
contributors propose novel analyses with lessons for unions. It
should be of interest to union activists and leaders, political
parties, governments, and those who make decisions in and about
regions. Researchers and students of labour markets, political
mobilisation, and employment relations will take the analyses
further.
Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past
decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in
the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the
Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach
to addressing labour regulation by drawing upon insights from
industrial relations, comparative capitalism, and new governance
schools of thought. It stands for the proposition that an
interdisciplinary study of regional regulation holds the potential
to offer a fuller account of social regionalism. Its focus is to
consider how institutions and labour market actors reconstruct and
renegotiate regulatory space in a changing economic environment
characterized by regional impulses. It argues that there is a
dynamic interplay between institutions and actors of social
regulation. This interplay occurs at many levels. The book
therefore maps both how actors shape institutions as well as how
institutions shape social actors' ability to affect regulatory
processes. The editors bring together leading international
specialists willing to move beyond textual analyses of regional
agreements to offer alternative accounts of regional integration.
The work emphasizes that institutional context and social actors at
multiple governance levels are integral to the progressive
construction and regulation of regional space. It further
contributes to the literature by combining insights from overlooked
regional entities in transition and developing countries with
original analyses from the European Union and the NAFTA. These aims
will be achieved by combining original research that is empirically
grounded with theoretically informed analysis.
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over
the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and
trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial
extension of trade union action, and in particular the development
of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and
forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues.
Through the work of leading international specialists, this
collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of
transnational trade union action and provides analytical and
conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research
presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational
solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and
negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments
in transition and developing countries with original analyses from
the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination
of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic
or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does
it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international
union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different
levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of
institution building and challenges the conventional national based
forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the
twentieth century.
Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past
decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in
the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the
Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach
to addressing labour regulation by drawing upon insights from
industrial relations, comparative capitalism, and new governance
schools of thought. It stands for the proposition that an
interdisciplinary study of regional regulation holds the potential
to offer a fuller account of social regionalism. Its focus is to
consider how institutions and labour market actors reconstruct and
renegotiate regulatory space in a changing economic environment
characterized by regional impulses. It argues that there is a
dynamic interplay between institutions and actors of social
regulation. This interplay occurs at many levels. The book
therefore maps both how actors shape institutions as well as how
institutions shape social actors' ability to affect regulatory
processes. The editors bring together leading international
specialists willing to move beyond textual analyses of regional
agreements to offer alternative accounts of regional integration.
The work emphasizes that institutional context and social actors at
multiple governance levels are integral to the progressive
construction and regulation of regional space. It further
contributes to the literature by combining insights from overlooked
regional entities in transition and developing countries with
original analyses from the European Union and the NAFTA. These aims
will be achieved by combining original research that is empirically
grounded with theoretically informed analysis.
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over
the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and
trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial
extension of trade union action, and in particular the development
of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and
forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues.
Through the work of leading international specialists, this
collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of
transnational trade union action and provides analytical and
conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research
presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational
solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and
negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments
in transition and developing countries with original analyses from
the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination
of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic
or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does
it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international
union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different
levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of
institution building and challenges the conventional national based
forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the
twentieth century.
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