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Trade unions and democracy

Strategies and perspectives

Edited by Mark Harcourt and Geoffrey Wood

Trade unions and democracy
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  • ISBN: 9780719069789
  • Publish Date: Sep 2004
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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  • ISBN: 9780719069796
  • Publish Date: Apr 2009
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    This book explores the changing role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. Despite conventionally being portrayed as politically marginalised and in terminal decline, trade unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialised countries and have demonstrated a capacity for revival and renewal in the face of difficult corcumstances.

    It brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society, their capacity to impact on state policies in such a manner as to ensure greater accountability and fairness, and the nature and extent of internal representative democracy within the labour movement.

    This volume will be of interest to students and academics in industrial relations, critical management studies, political studies and sociology.

    Contents

    1: Introduction - Trade Unions and democracy: possibilities and contradictions
    2: Trade unions and theories of democracy
    3: Neo-Liberal reforms and accords: are they compatible with democracy?
    4: Trade unions and democracy: can the third way recast the lnk?
    5: Unions and non-standard employment
    6: New forms of work and the representational gap: a Durban case study
    7: The changing impact and strength of the labour movement in advanced societies
    8: The U.S. and Canadian labour movements: markets vs. states and societies
    9: The rise and fall of the organizing model in the US
    10: Union growth and reversal in newly industrialised countries: The case of South Korea and peripheral workers
    11: The rise of unions in semi-industrialized countries: the cases of South Africa and Zimbabwe
    12: Social movement unionism
    13: Unions and politics
    14: Trade union democracy: the dynamics of different forms
    15: Unions and social partnerships
    16: Engagement or disengagement? unions and a new politics
    17: Conclusion

    Editors

    Mark Harcourt is Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at Waikato University in New Zealand. Geoffrey Wood is Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School, and Overseas Associate of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa

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    Edited by Mark Harcourt, Geoffrey Wood

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