Organizing Matters: Two Logics of Trade Union Representation - Couverture rigide

Mundlak, Guy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1839104023 ISBN 13 : 9781839104022

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour's collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour's interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries - Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.

Trade unionists and scholars will find this a compelling story of organizing, narrated in the voice of organizers, trade union officials and local observers. This is a source for reflection on the daily hardship and strategic goals of organizing. Theorists will be able to utilize the two logics for explaining ongoing challenges for trade unions' revitalization worldwide.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1839104023
• ISBN 13: 9781839104022
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218; gpsr.requests@easproject.com; ; Mustamäe tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia; Tallinn; Estonie