A study of European co-operation and transatlantic relations in the 1950s as well as on the changes these relations underwent during the early postwar period. The European Productivity Agency (EPA) was created in 1953 as a semi-autonomous organization within the framework of the…
Cole saw the trade unions as being critical to progress, but to realise their role they needed to change and the issue of trade union structure therefore became fundamental. He considered in this volume that trade union structure was a central problem of the labour movement -- h…
Australia once had extremely high levels of trade union participation, yet since the 1970s the number of union members has been falling dramatically. This book aims to give answers as to why people do or do not belong to unions and examines the reasons for union decline. It cons…
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine stan…
This text reveals how both workers and unions can use space as a source of political and social power and how space may in turn, be used against them. These essays show: how a sensitivity to the spatial aspects of labour unionism can provide insights into the nature of unionism;…
How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? This book suggest that US unions can loook elsewhere to expand their role, by creating ties with workers and unions in other countries and by including immigrant workers - who are growing - in t…
This is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women working in their comm…
This text reinterprets the history of labour internationalism. It examines the old internationalism of labour and socialism, and the present one of the new radical-democratic social movements, such as that of women and feminism. It argues for a "new global solidarity" that relat…
Collective bargaining is still the main vehicle for labour worldwide to negotiate wages, benefits, retirement policies, training and other terms of working with management in both the public and private sectors. Labour economists have long been active in modelling the relations …
Poor People's Unions explores the ongoing shift in labor activism from the shop floor to the community. Focusing on the activism of minorities, immigrants, women, and the otherwise disenfranchised workers who have long been pushed to the sidelines in labor unions, Tait advances …
