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Publisher: Consortium Erudit
Date: 26-01-2005
DOI: 10.7202/012153AR
Abstract: International trade unionism faces a major challenge. Historically, Global Union Federations have been small and relatively remote international union secretariats with limited capacity to mobilize and speak on behalf of local members. However, with the changing architecture of international capital and nation states, these union bodies have started to renew themselves. The argument is that the emergent political economy provides the base upon which these unions can begin to c aign and represent members in more dynamic ways than in the past. Critical to these developments has been the promulgation of International Framework Agreements which adapt and extend familiar tools of representation. The outcome is the possibility of a multi-faceted form of trade unionism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1994
Publisher: Figshare
Date: 1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-02-2013
DOI: 10.1111/RUSO.12006
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-1996
DOI: 10.1108/01425459610116122
Abstract: The question of health and safety at work is a central issue for trade unions. In Britain it is an area of concern where there were important legislative initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s, although surprisingly this has received relatively little attention in the debates about trade unionism. This neglect results in an aspect of union activity about which little is known. Explores through a detailed longitudinal study of a middle‐range engineering firm, from the late 1970s into the 1990s, the ways in which trade unions organize and act on health and safety questions. Argues that it is almost “routine” that workers face dangers and hazards at work, a central feature of the work and employment experience of most workers. However, this is often difficult to deal with as in idual issues, or as matters which are subject to collective consideration. On the one hand, workers often appear to accept the dangers and hazards they face. On the other hand, managements are preoccupied with questions relating to production and finance, rather than the day‐to‐day problems faced by workers. This tension suggests that the future wellbeing of workers in unionized workplaces lies not so much with legislative provisions and rights at work, but in education and the organizing ability of workplace unions, raising and addressing what often seem like in idualistic problems in collective ways.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-12-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-1996
DOI: 10.1108/01425459610151439
Abstract: Observes that there has been much discussion about human resource management (HRM) policies and packages and what their implications may be for trade unionism. Explores the impact of HRM policies and practices on trade unionism through a detailed three‐year case study examination in manufacturing, utilities and the civil service. Advances the argument that the way unions deal with HRM at a local level is varied and depends on the traditions and forms of union organization and practice in different sectors, although common to these packages is the attempt to in idualize work relations and weaken the resources of collective worker power. Maintains that, in the context of considerable restructuring and job insecurity in the manufacturing sector, union responses have been largely reactive and muted, occasionally resulting in the emergence of debilitating union forms of “social partnership”. In contrast, HRM policies in the public sector and the utilities have been one part of a more profound restructuring in these sectors and unions have been faced with the problem of developing or revitalizing workplace forms of organization. Concludes by asserting that such developments place the question of the way unions organize and operate at a workplace level, in the context of in idualized and consensual work relations firmly back on union agenda.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1994
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-03-2012
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670590.WBEOG348.PUB2
Abstract: Over the past two decades, many governments have sponsored a business‐driven model of economic reform. By redefining what was meant by a model state employer, many governments have promoted a state labor market defined by flexibility, competitiveness, and in idualization. In the United Kingdom, for ex le, Conservative governments in the 1980s and 1990s legislated for and promoted these goals, continued by subsequent governments (Bowman et al. 2014).
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1998
Publisher: Pluto Journals
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.2.2.0056
Abstract: Successive governments, particularly in the Anglo-American world, have sought to redefine the state by redrawing the boundaries between the public and private sectors, with marked implications for trade unions. One consequence of this process is that relations between unions and governments are reforged. In Australia, governments have initiated comprehensive processes of corporatisation and privatisation. One result is that previously close and often informal partnership arrangements (in the case of Labor governments) have changed. This type of institutional reorganisation prompts a reassessment of union-government relations as well as a complex working out of new modes of governance. This article explores these themes in relation to public transport in two Australian states: New South Wales and Victoria.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-09-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1996
Publisher: Consortium Erudit
Date: 03-01-2016
DOI: 10.7202/1038524AR
Abstract: Union approaches in relation to the global recalibration of work and employment relations and practices over the last three decades are being worked out in practice. The question for unions is by which means they either have leverage or the potential to exercise power in relation to state and corporate decisions and strategies. Unions thus face challenging questions about the ways they organize, exercise their capacities and attempt to meet their purposes. With reference to the Australian maritime sector, the study examines the ways the main union, the Maritime Union of Australia, developed multi-scalar approaches to localized events. The problem unions face is to defend and advance workers’ interests. The task is to organize, to realize their capacities to defend and advance maritime workers’ interests, increasingly in multi-scalar ways. The argument is that leaderships and activity that ‘bridge’ scalar relationships are an important condition in this process. There appears to be a complex set of cross-connections between the local, the national and the international. While transnational connectivity increasingly defines contemporary forms of trade unionism, these scalar relations are defined in relation to the workplace, the everyday world, and by the ways that transport is a defining characteristic of the global world. These relations constitute contemporary class struggle where work and employment relations are always in a process of change and development. Trade unionism, thus, remains a collective expression of power relations, in an increasingly internationalized world of work and employment. Thus, this research presents important lessons for multi-scalar organization and c aigning by unions to realize their capacities and purpose. Nonetheless, this study is only a beginning. While it indicates the processes of bridging, the next step is to investigate the variety of ways that bridging may take place and with what outcomes for the development of multi-scalar activity.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-09-2013
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-01-2014-0010
Abstract: – This paper aims to present on-going research on the role of social networks in community preparedness for bushfire. Social networks are significant in helping communities cope in disasters. Studies of communities hit by a catastrophe such as landslides or heatwaves demonstrate that people with well-connected social networks are more likely to recover than others where their networks are obliterated or non-existent. The value of social networks is also evident in bushfire where information is passed between family, friends and neighbours. Social interactions are important in creating opportunities for residents to exchange information on shared risks and can lead them to take collective actions to address this risk. – This paper presents on-going research on social networks of residents living in fire-prone areas in Australia to investigate how knowledge related to bushfire might flow, either in preparation for, or during a hypothetical emergency. A closer examination of social relations and characteristics within networks is critical in contextualizing this knowledge flow. This understanding will contribute to collected evidence that social networks play a particularly important role in collective action in building adaptive capacity. – The types of networks studied reflects how people’s emergent roles and their inter-relatedness with one another helps to build adaptive capacity and greater awareness of the risks they face from fire. In doing so, the paper questions in idualized attributes of “leaders” that disaster literature can over-emphasize, and critiques notions “vulnerability” in a social network context. It demonstrates that social capital can be generated through emergent, contextual, processual factors. – The paper contributes critical knowledge and evidence for fire agencies to engage with community networks and support those people who are playing a vital catalytic, bridging and linking role to strengthen their potential for adaptive capacity in mitigating bushfire risk.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2008
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X0703100404
Abstract: The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by changing organizational practices or changing aims and ambitions, as well as by recomposing past rela tionships, especially between unions and state bodies. These themes are addressed via three case studies chosen to exemplify particular aspects of union organization and activity. The study concludes with a comparative evaluation of the three cases in terms of the principles of union renewal.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-08-2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2015
Abstract: Union renewal has been the subject of debate over the last two decades. Via a review of these debates, a revision of the union renewal thesis is presented, suggesting that union renewal should be examined as a process of transition. Three analytic dimensions of renewal are identified and presented, each arising out of a consideration of the debates: union organisation, union capacity and union purpose. The proposition is that an understanding of contemporary unionism involves a consideration of the ways renewal involves a multi-faceted transition in relation to the political economy of trade unionism. The way to understand this characterisation is to reconsider theories about unions in terms of a dialectic, addressing the inter-relationships and integration of union organisation, capacities and purpose.
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-12-2011
Abstract: Trade unions across a range of countries are engaging in a new environmental politics. This article considers emerging environmental politics among Australian unions who have sought to advance policy efforts to reduce carbon emissions and green jobs while minimizing the social impacts of a more carbon-constrained environment on jobs and regions. Against this background, this article seeks to advance a theory of union environmental politics by considering the organizational constraints unions operate within, their relationship with local communities and governments, and how they have sought to extend their capacities and organizational form through confederations and alliance-building with other actors.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2014
Abstract: Many traditional regions are being transformed as industries restructure. Paradoxically, the global economic downturn offers opportunities to innovate on policies to regenerate areas experiencing deindustrialisation, with one emerging focus being the development of ‘green skills’ to facilitate the transition of these places to ‘green economies’. In this article, we explore similar policy objectives (i.e. regeneration activity based (in part) on green economy transitions) across three deindustrialising/deindustrialised regions – Appalachia (United States), Ruhr (Germany) and the Valleys (South Wales) – to provide an account of the ways in which different regions with similar industrial pasts erge in their approach to moving towards greener futures. Our argument is that the emphasis in such transitions should be the creation of ‘decent’ jobs, with new economic activity and employment initiatives embracing a ‘high road’ (i.e. high skill/high pay/high quality) trajectory. Utilising a ‘varieties of capitalism’ analysis, we contend that an effective, socially inclusive and ‘high road’ transition is more likely to emerge within co-ordinated market economy contexts, for ex le, Germany, than within the liberal market economy contexts of, for ex le, the United States and United Kingdom. In identifying the critical success factors leading to ‘high road’ green economy, the implications for any such transition within the liberal market economy context of Australia are highlighted.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/NTWE.12003
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-05-2005
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 1995
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2010
Abstract: Building on a long history of concerns with the working environment, unions are now addressing issues arising from the debates and policies on the human causes of climate change. This article examines how unions are responding to such issues. Many unions are extending their capacities in relation to environmental concerns and in the process are refocusing their purpose. This is, however, not straightforward: unions are caught in a tension between pressures to ensure job creation and pressures towards environmental responsibility. While unions address climate change as independent organizations, more comprehensive outcomes may be possible via emergent forms of unionism that bring unions and their local communities together in solidaristic ways.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 1992
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-1977
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-1990
DOI: 10.1177/030981689004100102
Abstract: Examining the policies and practices of trade unions during the 1980s, the authors investigate the tension between bureaucratic and collective participative relations within and between unions: finding that bureaucratic forms, involving accommodation with government policies, have predominated.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-01-2008
DOI: 10.1108/13665620810843610
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to open up discussion about the relationship between trade unions and workplace learning. The paper is based on an analysis of a series of case‐studies of restructuring in the European steel industry, incorporating interviews, observation and documentary analysis. The paper argues that trade unions often fail to address the significance of workplace learning for members, because they address workplace learning as a service. This approach fails to exploit opportunities and possibilities to extend workplace‐learning provisions, and thereby meet the wider learning and employability enhancing needs of members. The outcome is that trade union involvement in skill formation and workplace learning is marginal, and contributes to the perpetuation of traditional sector practices and regressive learning provisions. The paper focuses on a discussion of trade union involvement in workplace learning in the European steel industry. The implications for workplace learning practices more generally, are limited to industries where trade unions (and companies/industry) organise in relation to training and learning agendas in similar ways – and in relation to industries undergoing similar process of restructuring and “modernisation”. The paper provides a critique of trade union service approaches to learning agendas and highlights for policy‐makers gaps in current learning provisions within industry. This paper makes an original contribution to debates concerned with trade union involvement and participation in workplace learning. It focuses on workplace inequities in training provision, and the implications for the future of unions and the employability prospects of workforces within the European steel industry.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-11-2012
Abstract: Worker and union responses to mass redundancy announcements are complex. This article explores a mass redundancy announcement with the purpose of shedding light on the way collective responses are shaped at such times. The article focuses on steelworker redundancies in South Wales (United Kingdom) in 2001 and 2002, which occurred at the Corus plc steelworks at Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent and Llanwern, Newport, and argues that management handles such announcements in strategic ways to neutralize collective responses. Further, the article contends that the way trade unions organize and operate can result in union members being demobilized, thereby restricting alternative courses of action. Central to the analysis are understandings of the ways information, in the form of rumour and through more formal channels, flows between management, union and the membership/workforce.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2000
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-12-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2001
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-05-2014
Abstract: Trade unions often face complex and uncertain relations with multinational employers, particularly in old industrial regions. Such corporations have long histories in such regions, often attracted by a range of incentives such as financial support, cheap energy and a skilled workforce. However, the plants themselves often experience changes in ownership and face economic uncertainty. This constitutes the terrain within which recognised unions seek to organise, exercise their capacities and realise their purposes. Workers and their unions organise and operate in these plants, usually developing established routines and practices in relation to the terms and conditions of employment and advocacy of worker concerns. However, they also face difficult choices in relation to corporate decisions to restructure and/or close regional plants. In order for unions to respond to the shifting terrain of the employment landscape they must be able to mobilise around political and economic factors that impact on employment. These themes are addressed with specific reference to union struggles in North West Tasmania, a region that is undergoing a process of de-industrialisation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-09-2015
Abstract: Many traditional regions are undergoing change and transformation as industries restructure. The development of ‘green economies’ and the transition to a low-carbon economy offers areas experiencing industrial decline an opportunity to innovate around policies for regeneration. In this process, there is a necessary emphasis on skills development and the creation of decent jobs, but institutional context mediates such processes in different places in different ways. This article argues that an effective transition policy is more likely to emerge where a mutually reciprocal relationship is developed between the state qua government and the social groups that comprise the region, including employers and workers and their representatives. Utilising a ‘varieties of capitalism’ typology in relation to areas of industrial decline in Germany and the UK, the article illustrates the ways in which transition policies are elaborated and implemented, with an explicit focus on decent job creation.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1997
DOI: 10.1177/030981689706300101
Abstract: On 19 August 1996, thousands of trade unionists and others stormed the Australian Parliament protesting against the Coalition Government's Work place Relations Bill. In a very visible departure from the years of cooperation and compromise with the previous Federal Labor Government, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) called on trade unionists and their supporters to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed legislation. This outbreak of anger might be thought to herald a reaction to heightened attacks on the Australian working class, ushered in by the election of the Coalition Government on 2 March 1996, which ended thirteen years of Labor rule under leaders Bob Hawke (1983-1991) and Paul Keating (1991-1996). However, while indicating a renewed activism by a disenchanted and alienated working class, this outburst of anger was not attributable to a sudden shift in the overall direction of government policy. Rather, it was an expression of a profound disenchantment with thirteen years of Australian ‘New Labor’ and a fear of the future under a Coalition Government committed to the sharp edges of the neo-liberal agenda.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 1990
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-03-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12285
Abstract: This paper considers the impact of gendered norms on decision-making for wildfire preparation and response at the household level. Focusing on Australia, it provides a theoretical thematic analysis of data acquired in 107 interviews with residents of nine different localities. It builds on existing research on gender and disaster, as well as on decision-making and wildfires, and analyses the narratives that centre on 'split' households plans (where a male partner plans to stay and a female partner plans to evacuate) and disagreements within heterosexual couples as to an appropriate wildfire safety plan. The study finds that gender inequality and differences in gendered expectations are likely to create difficult conditions for negotiation between members of a heterosexual couple when there is disagreement over a plan and that this may contribute to risky decision-making practices and outcomes. The paper reiterates, therefore, the importance of taking into account the social construction of gender in wildfire research and policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1998
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-10-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-1993
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1986
DOI: 10.1177/002218568602800201
Abstract: The academic debate about union democracy in Australia is limited and is largely focused on the internal affairs and arrangements of unions. This attention is consistent with the circumstances that Australia's unions are more extensively regulated by legislation than most other comparable union movements. It is argued that this degree of regulation has provided a powerful impetus toward the centralizing tendencies of unions in contemporary capitalist societies. But to leave the argument at this level is to lose sight of the purpose of trade unions as class organizations. Through a consideration of selected unions and disputes it is argued that, although unions are subject to considerable pressures toward constraint and control, oppositional forms of trade unionism have emerged, albeit to a limited extent. It is on the basis of this analysis that the argument is made that union democracy should be a major issue for most unions. To realize union democracy it is necessary for unions to be organized and structured in collective ways. This, however. does not mean that union democracy is inevitable it means that union democracy is a possibility that can only be achieved through union practice.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-10-2002
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1994
Abstract: The argument in this paper is that, while privatization creates difficulties for traditional forms of unionism, it also opens up the possibility of union renewal. Drawing on detailed case study evidence from telecommunications, gas and water, three related issues are examined. Managerial decentralisation and devolution have created opportunities for managements to pursue policies aimed at achieving more direct forms of control over their workforces, specifically through the in idualisation of work relations, thereby threatening the continued operation of unions in these industries. With these developments it has become clear that the traditional forms of unionism no longer suffice, precipitating debates within these unions as to how best to deal with these changes. In the face of these developments, local unions have attempted to either maintain past forms of organisation and activity to accommodate this process of restructuring or they have begun a process of union renewal, broadening their bases of union concern and activity. Thus, the paradox of privatization is that some unions may be able to take the opportunity provided by this restructuring to reorganise and lay the foundations for their renewal in more participative and active ways.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
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