Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions / / ed. by Lowell Turner, Michael A. Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Anner, Mark,; Cohen, Larry,; Early, Steve,; Gordon, Michael E.,; Jessup, David,; Martin, Andrew,; Ramsay, Harvie,; Ross, George,; Servais, Jean-Michel,; Turner, Lowell,; Wilson, Jim,; Windmuller, John P.,; Zinn, Kenneth S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gordon, Michael A.,; Turner, Lowell,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 3 charts

Organized labor faces enormous challenges in the increasingly global economy. The effect of multinational corporations, the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers in international commerce have all sparked widespread prophecies of trade union demise. This book, however, presents compelling evidence that unions can survive and grow if labor is willing to cooperate across national borders. Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions is a seminal study of such cooperation as an effective weapon against the exploitation of workers in today's world.After assessing the challenges confronting organized labor, the authors turn their attention to specifics. They describe and evaluate the most important transnational labor associations, campaigns, and transnational cooperatives in a variety of industries. Contributors include academics who have assessed the status of union-management relations and international labor organizations as well as participants in union campaigns organized across national boundaries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Industrial Relations Environment for Transnational Cooperation -- 1. Going Global -- 2. Know Thine Enemy: Understanding Multinational Corporations as a Requirement for Strategic International Laborism -- 3. Labor Law and Cross-Border Cooperation among Unions -- 4. Export Processing Zones -- Part II: Interorganizational Structures That Promote Transnational Cooperation -- 5. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions: Bread, Freedom, and Peace -- 6. The International Trade Secretariats -- 7. European Integration and the Europeanization of Labor -- Part III. The Practice of Transnational Cooperation -- 8. From "Solidarity" to Convergence: International Trade Union Cooperation in the Media Sector -- 9. Organizing in Export Processing Zones: The Bibong Experience in the Dominican Republic -- 10. Globalization and De-Unionization in Telecommunications: Three Case Studies in Resistance -- 11. Solidarity across Borders: The UMWA's Corporate Campaign against Peabody and Hanson PLC -- 12 Local and Transnational Campaigns to End Sweatshop Practices -- 13. Making Transnational Collaboration Work -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index