Unions in Transition
Unions in Transition

Author: Seymour Martin Lipset

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : ICS Press, Institute for Contemporary Studies

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13:

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The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose certification elections at a high ratio, whether labor can reverse the current trends, and what labor's future role will be in the American economic and social system. A number of well-known experts have contributed to this volume: Lane Kirkland, Ray Marshall, Walter Galeson, and Richard Freeman. Among the topics discussed are the public image of unions, their economic impact, public sector bargaining, and unionism in an international and historical perspective. ISBN 0-917616-73-1 (pbk.): $12.95.

Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition
Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition

Author: S. Ashwin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-11-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0230598358

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Many commentators expected the Russian trade unions to collapse along with the system of which they were an integral part, but the trade unions survived the storms of the Yeltsin era by adopting a strategy of 'social partnership'. This book, based on case-study and survey research in eight Russian regions, provides a detailed account of the development of trade unionism in Russia since the collapse of the soviet system. Against the background of the role of the trade unions in the soviet system, the book reviews the political role, structure and functions of the trade unions, development of social partnership at federal and regional levels, and provides a detailed account of the activity of the trade unions at the level of enterprise. The book concludes with a critical assessment of the Russian unions' strategy of 'social partnership' and locates it in comparative perspective.

Unions in Transition
Unions in Transition

Author: Jerry Bornstein

Publisher: Julian Messner

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780671419134

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Discusses the history of trade unions, their structure and function, and several issues facing today's organized labor movement.

The Challenge of Transition
The Challenge of Transition

Author: Tim Pringle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230294669

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This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.

Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity

Author: Paul Hampton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1317554345

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This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers’ climate action. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.

Work, Employment and Transition
Work, Employment and Transition

Author: Al Rainnie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134534973

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Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations.