Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles

ISBN-13: 9780765608703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 302 str.

Bruce Nissen

Opis

How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? This book suggest that US unions can look elsewhere to expand their role, by creating ties with workers and unions in other countries and by including immigrant workers - who are growing - in their ranks.

Spis treści

1. The Labor Movement in a New Globalized Environment: An Introduction, Bruce Nissen; Part I: Cross-Border Organizing and Solidarity; 2. Free Trade and Worker Solidarity in the North American Auto Industry, Steve Babson; 3. Four Models of Cross-Border Maquila Organizing, Henry Frundt; 4. Union Global Alliances at Multinational Corporations: A Case Study of the Ameritech Alliance, Jeff Rechenbach and Larry Cohen; Part II: Responding to Immigration; 5. New Workers, New Labor, and the New Los Angeles, Ruth Milkman; 6. Unions and Immigrants in South Florida: A Comparison, Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier; Part III: Internal Transformation: Moving Toward Social Movement Unionism? 7. The Strategic Challenge of Organizing Manufacturing Workers in Global/Flexible Capitalism, Fernando Gapasin and Edna Bonacich; 8. Does Neoliberal Restructuring Promote Movement Unionism? U.S. Developments in Comparative Perspective, Ian Robinson; 9. Citizenship Movement Unionism: For the Defense of Local Communities in the Global Age, Paul Johnston; 10. Concluding Thoughts: Internal Transformation? Bruce Nissen

O autorze

Bruce Nissen is Program Director at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University in Miami. He has published numerous scholarly articles and six books, including Theories of the Labor Movement (coeditor, 1987); Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions and Communities (coeditor and contributor, 1993); Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings (1995); Unions and Workplace Reorganization (editor and contributor, 1998), and Which Direction for Organized Labor? - Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations (editor and contributor, 1999). He is coeditor of Labor Studies Journal and an executive board member of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE). Recent research interests include living wage movements and immigrant experiences with organized labor.