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Unions in a Globalized Environment Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles

By Bruce Nissen Copyright 2002
    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts, and dismantling import barriers, organized labor has been steadily losing ground in the United States. This book argues that to reverse this trend, U.S. unions must create ties with workers and unions in other countries, and include the ever-increasing number of immigrant workers in their ranks. And it calls for a shift toward "social movement unionism, " which would change unions' orientation from exclusively market-focused and more toward social issues and rights.

    1. The Labor Movement in a New Globalized Environment: An Introduction, Bruce Nissen; Part I: Cross-Border Organizing and Solidarity; 2. Free Trade and Worker Solidarity in the North American Auto Industry, Steve Babson; 3. Four Models of Cross-Border Maquila Organizing, Henry Frundt; 4. Union Global Alliances at Multinational Corporations: A Case Study of the Ameritech Alliance, Jeff Rechenbach and Larry Cohen; Part II: Responding to Immigration; 5. New Workers, New Labor, and the New Los Angeles, Ruth Milkman; 6. Unions and Immigrants in South Florida: A Comparison, Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier; Part III: Internal Transformation: Moving Toward Social Movement Unionism? 7. The Strategic Challenge of Organizing Manufacturing Workers in Global/Flexible Capitalism, Fernando Gapasin and Edna Bonacich; 8. Does Neoliberal Restructuring Promote Movement Unionism? U.S. Developments in Comparative Perspective, Ian Robinson; 9. Citizenship Movement Unionism: For the Defense of Local Communities in the Global Age, Paul Johnston; 10. Concluding Thoughts: Internal Transformation? Bruce Nissen

    Biography

    Bruce Nissen is Program Director at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University in Miami. He has published numerous scholarly articles and six books, including Theories of the Labor Movement (coeditor, 1987); Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions and Communities (coeditor and contributor, 1993); Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings (1995); Unions and Workplace Reorganization (editor and contributor, 1998), and Which Direction for Organized Labor? - Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations (editor and contributor, 1999). He is coeditor of Labor Studies Journal and an executive board member of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE). Recent research interests include living wage movements and immigrant experiences with organized labor.

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