1st Edition
Transformations of Trade Unionism Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
By Ad Knotter
Copyright 2019
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers' resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will not be uniformly duplicated or copied from their present form in the global transformations of labour and workers' movements that we are witnessing today. Nevertheless, in the... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1 An international of insolence: the great anger of the cloth shearers in north-western Europe in the eighteenth century Chapter 2 Transnational cigar-makers: cross-border labour markets, strikes, and solidarity at the time of the First International (1864-1873) Chapter 3 From artisanal associations to collective bargaining agents: two phases of early trade unionism in Amsterdam (1864-1894) Chapter 4 Trade unions and workplace organization: regulating labour markets in the Belgian and American flat-glass industry and in the Amsterdam diamond industry (c. 1880-1940) Chapter 5 From placement control to control of the unemployed: trade unions and labour market intermediation in western Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chapter 6 The transnational origins of Dutch miners' unionism: a case study in the nationalization of labour movements (1907-1926) Chapter 7 Justice for Janitors goes Dutch. Precarious labour and trade union response in the cleaning industry (1988-2012): a transnational history, Conclusion: past and future transformations, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Ad Knotter is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Regional History at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
