1st Edition
Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Trade union movements in many countries face uncertain futures. After three decades of extensive economic restructuring at both national and international levels, often accompanied by major legislative reforms, the way forward for unions is unclear. Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, in most developed economies, union membership declined massively and union leaders and their members lost... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Trade Unions Facing the Future, Peter Fairbrother, Gerard Griffin; Chapter 2 Unions in Australia: Struggling to Survive, Gerard Griffin, Stuart Svensen; Chapter 3 Unions in Britain: Towards a New Unionism?, Peter Fairbrother; Chapter 4 Unions in Canada: Strategic Renewal, Strategic Conundrums, Gregor Murray; Chapter 5 Irish Unions: Testing the Limits of Social Part nership, William K. Roche, Jacqueline Ashmore; Chapter 6 Unions in New Zealand: What the Law Giveth…, Raymond Harbridge, Aaron Crawford, Kevin Hince; Chapter 7 American Unionism at the Start of the Twenty-first Century: Going Back to the Future?, Paul Jarley; Chapter 8 Conclusion: The State of the Unions, Gerard Griffin, Peter Fairbrother;
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Peter Fairbrother, Gerard Griffin
