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This collection of country studies explores changing relationships
between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly
internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and
examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal
market agendas. The authors express concern at the potentially
ravaging effects of market deregulation on organized labour and
present a critical account of state efforts to emulate desired
models of national economic development. While the central core of
the book concerns itself with changing labor relations, this is
placed within the wider context of state and employer strategy, and
covers issues such as labour market segmentation, welfare and
taxation regimes and varying approaches to corporatism.
This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview, and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research to provide new and comprehensive evidence on trade union strategies. eBook available with sample pages: 0203167392
There is a developing crisis of social democratic trade unionism in
Western Europe; this volume outlines the crisis and examines the
emerging alternatives. The authors define 'social democratic trade
unionism' and its associated party-union nexus and explain how this
traditional model has been threatened by social democracy's
accommodation to neo-liberal restructuring and public service
reform. Examining the experience of Sweden, Germany, Britain and
France, the volume explores the historical rise and fall of social
democratic trade unionism in each of these countries and probes the
policy and practice of the European Trade Union Confederation. The
authors critically examine the possibilities for a revival of
social democratic unionism in terms of strategic policy and
identity, offering suggestions for an alternative, radicalized
political unionism. The research value of the book is highlighted
by its focus on contemporary developments and its authors' intimate
knowledge of the chosen countries.
This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers'
local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's
digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive
taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience
invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has
been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour
obscured by a 'data foam' that does not benefit them. These cases
are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood
experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of
automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of
Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning
about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and
the quantified self in the workplace.
The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance
workplace has become central to policy debates on the
'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This
book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by
way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an
under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of
skilled workers and graduates. Drawing on rich interview and
questionnaire data, the authors highlight considerable conflicts of
interest in the development of partnership that derive from the
competitive capitalist environment in which management strategies
operate.
The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance
workplace has become central to policy debates on the
'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This
book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by
way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an
under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of
skilled workers and graduates. Drawing on rich interview and
questionnaire data, the authors highlight considerable conflicts of
interest in the development of partnership that derive from the
competitive capitalist environment in which management strategies
operate.
This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers
both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution
against Milosevic in October 2000. The authors argue that Tito and
the Communist leadership of Yugoslavia saw self-management as a
modernising project to compete with the West, and as a disciplining
tool for workers in the enterprise. The socialist ideals of
self-management were subsequently corrupted by Yugoslavia's turn to
the market. The authors then move on to examining the central role
of ordinary workers in overthrowing the nationalist regime of
Milosevic and present an account which runs contrary to many
descriptions of 'labour weakness' in post-Communist states.
Organised labour should be studied as a movement in and of itself
rather than as a passive object of external forces. Two labour
movement waves have emerged under post-Communism, the first an
expression of desire for democracy, the second as a collaboration
and clientelism. A third wave, against the ravages of
neoliberalism, is only just emerging. -- .
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