Friday, November 16, 2007
[IWS] ILO/GURN: TRADE UNION RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION [7 November 2007]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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ILO/GURN (Global Union Research Network)
Trade Union Responses to Globalization: A review by the Global Union Research Network [7 November 2007]
Edited by Verena Schmidt
http://www.gurn.info/papers/book_sale_en.pdf
Executive Summary
http://www.gurn.info/papers/book_sum_en.pdf
[excerpt from brochure]
Bringing together papers from some of the leading national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides a valuable overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalization.
Globalization has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom and Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fairer globalization, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more.
Above all, this book shows how trade unions are key in influencing the rules of globalization to achieve a fairer globalization, while also playing a paramount role in implementing and enforcing these rules.
Table of Contents
Editorial overview (Verena Schmidt)
1 Sustainability and unions: International trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level (Eberhard Schmidt, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
2 Social partnership at the global level: Building and Wood Workers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements (Marion F. Hellmann, Assistant General Secretary, Building and Wood Workers' International)
3 Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis: Exploring implications for labour research and unions (Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands)
4 Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops (Anibel Ferus-Comelo, New Trade Union Initiative, India)
5 Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests: Shaping the corporation of tomorrow (Richard Tudway, Advisor on corporate governance to TUAC, Paris; Fellow of Huron University USA in London; Director of the Centre for International Economics, London)
6 Multinational companies in Bulgaria: Impact on labour and social development (Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev, Institute for Social and Trade Union Research, Bulgaria)
7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining: The practice of multinational companies in Brazil (Clóvis Scherer, Instituto Observatório Social, Brazil)
8 Trade and development in South Africa (Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tanya van Meelis, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Johannesburg)
9 Migration in the global economy: Challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions (Ann-Marie Lorde, Research Officer, National Union of Public Workers, Barbados)
10 European Union enlargement, workers and migration: Implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland (Jane Hardy, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; and Nick Clark, Policy Officer, and Commercial Services Union, London, UK)
11 More than bananas: Social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Urabá Region of Colombia (Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, National University of Ireland, Galway)
12 The Labour Platform: An alliance of trade unions in Turkey (Seyhan Erdogdu, Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey)
13 Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy (Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University; and Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia)
14 Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa (Esther de Haan, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Michael Koen, Civil Society Research and Support Collective, Durban, South Africa)
Conclusion
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
ILO/GURN (Global Union Research Network)
Trade Union Responses to Globalization: A review by the Global Union Research Network [7 November 2007]
Edited by Verena Schmidt
http://www.gurn.info/papers/book_sale_en.pdf
Executive Summary
http://www.gurn.info/papers/book_sum_en.pdf
[excerpt from brochure]
Bringing together papers from some of the leading national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides a valuable overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalization.
Globalization has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom and Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fairer globalization, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more.
Above all, this book shows how trade unions are key in influencing the rules of globalization to achieve a fairer globalization, while also playing a paramount role in implementing and enforcing these rules.
Table of Contents
Editorial overview (Verena Schmidt)
1 Sustainability and unions: International trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level (Eberhard Schmidt, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
2 Social partnership at the global level: Building and Wood Workers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements (Marion F. Hellmann, Assistant General Secretary, Building and Wood Workers' International)
3 Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis: Exploring implications for labour research and unions (Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands)
4 Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops (Anibel Ferus-Comelo, New Trade Union Initiative, India)
5 Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests: Shaping the corporation of tomorrow (Richard Tudway, Advisor on corporate governance to TUAC, Paris; Fellow of Huron University USA in London; Director of the Centre for International Economics, London)
6 Multinational companies in Bulgaria: Impact on labour and social development (Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev, Institute for Social and Trade Union Research, Bulgaria)
7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining: The practice of multinational companies in Brazil (Clóvis Scherer, Instituto Observatório Social, Brazil)
8 Trade and development in South Africa (Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tanya van Meelis, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Johannesburg)
9 Migration in the global economy: Challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions (Ann-Marie Lorde, Research Officer, National Union of Public Workers, Barbados)
10 European Union enlargement, workers and migration: Implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland (Jane Hardy, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; and Nick Clark, Policy Officer, and Commercial Services Union, London, UK)
11 More than bananas: Social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Urabá Region of Colombia (Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, National University of Ireland, Galway)
12 The Labour Platform: An alliance of trade unions in Turkey (Seyhan Erdogdu, Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey)
13 Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy (Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University; and Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia)
14 Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa (Esther de Haan, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Michael Koen, Civil Society Research and Support Collective, Durban, South Africa)
Conclusion
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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