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Perestroika's fate was determined by the hostile reaction of the
working class. Strikes, protest and the fear of working class
action had a devastating impact, yet relatively little is known
about the workers' movement during this period. This book surveys
the development of the new workers' movement in Russia under
perestroika to understand how it connected with the workers at shop
floor level and the national and local political authorities to
whom it addressed its demands, and whose development it sought to
influence. Drawing on a programme of collaborative research on
Russian industrial relations from 1987 to 1992, the authors use a
series of case studies to explain the gulf between the thousands of
tiny independent groups, often based in a single enterprise or even
a single shop and regional and national organizations without a
grassroots base. Extensive interviews with participants, tape and
video recordings as well as substantial documentary material are
used in case studies of the 1989 miners' strike in Kuzbass, the
Kuzbass Regional Council of Workers' committees, the Independent
Miner's Union in Kuzbass, Sotsprof in Moscow and the Federation of
Air Traffic Controllers' Unions.
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions
looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the
recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of
union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic
and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination
has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models
of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while
Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an
attempt to develop a distinctive approach. This book aims to
provide a thorough grounding for informed discussion and debate
about the position and place of trade unions in modern economies.
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.
This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political
science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of
analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on
data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and
emergency services professionals living and working in
wildfire-prone areas, the authors focus on issues of power and
inequality, the contested nature of community and the relationship
between citizens and the state. The book questions not only
existing policy approaches, but also the central concepts on which
they are founded. In doing so, the aim is to create a more
conceptually robust and academically contextualised discussion
about the limitations of current wildfire policy approaches in
Australia and to provide further evidence of the need for disaster
studies to engage with a variety of social science approaches.
Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice will be of most interest to
higher degree by research students, other academics and policy
makers examining the evolving patterns and politics of work,
employment, management and industrial relations as well as those
involved in emergency and disaster management service delivery. It
would be most suited to academic and public libraries as well as
organisations in the field of emergency and disaster management.
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.
Innovative and offering a sociological analysis of trade unionism
in the globalized era, this book provides a robust and coherent
comparative analysis of the debate surrounding trade unions and
their renewal. In recent decades, trade unions suffered major
reversals. They experienced declining memberships. Employers were
increasingly assertive if not hostile. Transnational corporations
and state-owned multi-nationals increasingly implement
deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, vulnerable and
insecure job contracts. Using theory and a variety of case studies,
this book explores: the debate about the form of trade unionism;
the bases for collective organization; and the struggle and the
future of trade unionism. This is a must read for all those
studying industrial relations, human resource management, the
sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and
labour geography and business studies in general.
The world is undergoing enormous change involving politics, the
economy and society, however the position and place of the state
and the significance of state policy in this process is heavily
contested. "Globalisation, State and Labour "presents a timely
opportunity to review and re-assess the modern state in regard to
labor.
Using major studies from four countries (UK, Denmark, Australia and
New Zealand) the contributors to this volume challenge many
preconceptions regarding globalization and labor organization
including the notions that the state is being marginalized by the
processes of globalization and trade unions are becoming
irrelevant. The essays, written by leading researchers in the area,
develop a new theoretical framework which puts work, workers and
their organizations at the heart of analyzing state restructuring.
This book is an important corrective to much recent work on work,
employment and restructuring and the role of organized labor.
Combining a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis this
book will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with
globalization debate, the future of the state and organized labor.
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions
looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the
recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of
union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic
and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination
has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models
of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while
Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an
attempt to develop a distinctive approach. This book aims to
provide a thorough grounding for informed discussion and debate
about the position and place of trade unions in modern economies.
This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political
science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of
analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on
data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and
emergency services professionals living and working in
wildfire-prone areas, the authors focus on issues of power and
inequality, the contested nature of community and the relationship
between citizens and the state. The book questions not only
existing policy approaches, but also the central concepts on which
they are founded. In doing so, the aim is to create a more
conceptually robust and academically contextualised discussion
about the limitations of current wildfire policy approaches in
Australia and to provide further evidence of the need for disaster
studies to engage with a variety of social science approaches.
Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice will be of most interest to
higher degree by research students, other academics and policy
makers examining the evolving patterns and politics of work,
employment, management and industrial relations as well as those
involved in emergency and disaster management service delivery. It
would be most suited to academic and public libraries as well as
organisations in the field of emergency and disaster management.
Trade union movements in many countries face uncertain futures.
After three decades of extensive economic restructuring at both
national and international levels, often accompanied by major
legislative reforms, the way forward for unions is unclear.
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, in most developed
economies, union membership declined massively and union leaders
and their members lost their former prominence and their place in
the polity. Will trade unions be able to re-establish their past
salience in the bargaining arena and in the polity? Or, given the
uncertainties of internationalized economies and states, will the
first decade of this new century see further declines in union
strength and power? This book examines these and related questions
by exploring the background, current roles and prospects of trade
unions in six English-speaking countries.
Trade union movements in many countries face uncertain futures.
After three decades of extensive economic restructuring at both
national and international levels, often accompanied by major
legislative reforms, the way forward for unions is unclear.
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, in most developed
economies, union membership declined massively and union leaders
and their members lost their former prominence and their place in
the polity. Will trade unions be able to re-establish their past
salience in the bargaining arena and in the polity? Or, given the
uncertainties of internationalized economies and states, will the
first decade of this new century see further declines in union
strength and power? This book examines these and related questions
by exploring the background, current roles and prospects of trade
unions in six English-speaking countries.
In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and
experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and
state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented
deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable
and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a
wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for
collective organization and struggle and the future of trade
unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically,
in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of
selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying
industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of
work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor
geography and business studies in general.
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.
Most writing on the dramatic events in the former Soviet Union has
been based on the assumption that Russia is engaged in a transition
from "state socialism" to capitalism, and focuses on political and
ideological debates formulated in these terms.
This book questions whether Russia is in transition to capitalism
and looks behind the political and ideological debates to focus on
the development of the social relations of production, and on the
class struggles to which these give rise. Simon Clarke introduces
the book with an examination of the crisis of state socialism, in
order to identify the dynamic of change in contemporary Russia.
Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov develop a detailed case study of
one Russian enterprise, which is followed by an analysis of the
role of the trade unions in the Soviet system by Simon Clarke and
Peter Fairbrother, on the basis of which they develop an analytical
account of the development of the workers' movement in Russia since
1987. Simon Clarke concludes the book with a detailed examination
of struggles around privatization.
The common conclusion is that beneath the political turmoil the
dominant class has renewed and restructured itself, but has not
managed to overcome the challenge presented by the working class.
The fragmentation and atomization of the working class remains a
problem, but the struggle over the transformation of class
relations is only just beginning.
What is the scope and scale of corporatisation and privatisation in
Australia in the past two decades and what are their implications
for management, labour and industrial relations? This book
documents the extensive scale of this process of state
restructuring and the increasing variation in the arrangements for
providing public goods and services, often accompanied by
uncertainty. It shows many sectors of the community to be
increasingly distrustful of their impact and consequences, and the
way in which policy makers find themselves caught between promoting
the reforms, predominantly for economic reasons, and answering to
this suspicious community. It shows that it is those who actually
provide public services who feel the changes most acutely, as they
face questions about ownership, find their arrangements for work
patterns and organization recast, and suffer increasing insecurity
about work and employment futures. The book grapples with these
issues through a series of case studies on Qantas, Telstra, the
electricity industries in NSW and Victoria, Job Network, Local
government and the Gas & Fuel Corporation of Victoria. These
seven case studies, three of privatisations by the Australian
Federal Government, and four of change initiated by State
Governments, provide a detailed analysis of the resulting changes
in employment and industrial relations.
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