Global Unions Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy Routledge Ripe Studies I Global Political Economy 1st Edition by Jeffrey Harrod, Robert O Brien ISBN 978-0415288118 0415288118

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ISBN 10:   0415288118

ISBN 13: 978-0415288118

Author: Jeffrey Harrod, Robert O’Brien  

This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalization and this book analyzes the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level.

Table of contents: 

1. List of Illustrations
2. Acknowledgements
3. List of Contributors

Part I. International Political Economy and Organized Labour: Approaches and Theories
4. Introduction: Organized Labour and Global Political Economy
5. Work, Production and Social Relations: Repositioning the Firm in the International Political Economy
6. Towards an International Political Economy of Labour
7. Internationalization, Industrial Relations and International Relations

Part II. National and Regional Strategies
8. Organizing Globally, Organizing Local: Geographical Scale and Union Spatial Strategy
9. Trade Unions, Training and Globalization: Initiatives in Britain and Brazil
10. The International Dimension of Labour Federation Economic Strategy in Canada and the United States 1947–2000
11. Unions, States and Capitals: Competing (Inter)nationalisms in North America and European Integration
12. International Labour and Regional Integration: Asia-Pacific

Part III. The Global Arena: Unions and Global Dynamics
13. The Constraints on Labour Internationalism: Contradictions and Prospects
14. Labour Movement Renewal in the Era of Globalization: Union Responses in the South
15. Peripheralizing Labour: the ILO, WTO and the Completion of the Bretton Woods Project
16. The Varied Paths to Minimum Global Labour Standards
17. Labour as a Global Social Force: Past Divisions and New Tasks

18. References
19. Index

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