1st Edition

Trade Unions and Regions Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance

226 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses pressing questions concerned with the conditions for better work and a humane society. The focus is on... Read more

Chapter 1: Understanding Union Power and Regional Governance
Peter Fairbrother and Christian Lévesque
 
Part I:  Organisational Experimentations
 
Chapter 2: Urban regimes, experiments and institutional innovation
Glenn Morgan and Malu Villela
 
Chapter 3: Collective Bargaining and Regional Resilience: Recalibrating Labour Relations in the Great Lakes Region Automotive Industry 
John Holmes
 
Part 2: Institutional Experimentation
 
Chapter 4: Reflections on Labour Strategy in Urban and Regional Governance
Ian MacDonald and Thorben Wieditz
 
Chapter 5: Institutional Experimentation in the Montreal Taxi Industry: What Role for the State and Collective Action?
Urwana Coiquaud and Lucie Morissette

Part 3: Comparative Studies of Experimentation

Chapter 6: Marginalising Manufacturing: The Politics of Downgrading in the UK Apparel Industry
Nikolaus Hammer and Lucy Brill

Chapter 7: Power Dynamics, Regional Governance institutions and the Quality of Work: A Comparison of Baja California and Queretaro Aerospace Clusters
Christian Lévesque, Redi Gomis, Blandine Émilien and Jorge Carrillo
 
Part 4: The Interconnections between Organisational and Institutional Experimentation
 
Chapter 8: An instance of a tripartite successful institutional experimentation: Dual Vocational Education and Training in Spain 
Maria C. González and Aroa Tejero
 
Chapter 9:  From organizational to institutional experimentation in the Montreal aerospace industry: Understanding the role of trade unions strategic capabilities
Christian Lévesque, Cassandra Bowkett, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Lucie Morissette
 
Chapter 10: Unions interrogating regions and regionalism in Australia: The challenges of experimentation
Peter Fairbrother and Ruth Barton

Biography

Christian Lévesque is a Professor of Employment Relations at HEC Montréal, Canada and the co-Director of the CRIMT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work).

Peter Fairbrother is a Professor of Management and Labour, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia and Affiliated Professor, HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

Blandine Emilien is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada.

María C. González is a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Lucie Morissette is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the Department of Human Resource Management at HEC Montréal, Canada.