A Global Union for Global Workers: Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping

ISBN-13: 9780415977470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 230 str.

Nathan Lillie

Opis

A Global Union for Global Workers illustrates how unions in one industry successfully set global minimum wages and working conditions, and participated authoritatuively in global governance in their industry. Nathan Lillie powerfully highlights the potential for the labour movement to become an effective transitional force and participant in democratic global governance. The inability of most unions to adapt to the new conditions and their consequent decline, is a threat to workers' living standards everywhere, and to prospects for a more democratic system of global governance.

Spis treści

1. Global Union Strategies for a Global Industry  2. The Maritime Shipping Industry and Maritime Industrial Relations  3. Surveying the Literature  4. How to Catch the Capitalist on the Move: Implementing a Global Uniform Wage Scale on Flag of Convenience Ships  5. Bargaining Globally and Boycotting Locally: Transnational Networks and Global Unionism in Maritime Shipping  6. Seafarer Qualifications, Labor Market Power, and Global Regulatory Politics: Union and Employer Political Strategies for Shaping Access to Global Maritime Labor Markets  7. Dock Unions' Collective Self Defense and the FOC Campaign  8. Breaking No Eggs and Making No Omelettes: Transnational Union Strategies in the Global World Economy  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Nathan Lillie is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His articles on international unionism and labor standards have appeared in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations, and Environment and Planning-A. He is currently researching the role of labor in global governance.