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The Handbook of Labour Unions

Prof. Gregor Gall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
480 Seiten
2025
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-835-1 (ISBN)
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This collection of newly commissioned essays from an international cast of contributors provides an authoritative assessment of the continued economic, social and political relevance of labour unions and their potential to bring about progressive societal change.
Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the world’s largest representative organizations and continue to play a significant role as vehicles for democracy, sustainable development and social justice.



This handbook assembles an array of experts to critically engage with the debates and discussions about the role and purpose of unions and the many means by which they seek to attain them. The book provides insights into how unions can meet the challenges of structural changes in the labour market, including technological progress, the green agenda and the digital platform economy, and how they can better represent the needs of their members, in particular migrant, domestic and informal workers.



The book is a valuable resource for industrial relations, labour economics, sociology of work, employment and labour law, history of trade unionism, working patterns and practices, workplace culture and workers’ rights.

Gregor Gall is a Visiting Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Leeds and an Affiliate Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. He is also a writer and commentator, being the author and editor of 30 books, mainly about labour unions and about politics in Scotland. His latest book is a biographical and sociological study of rail union leader, Mick Lynch (2024).

Introduction – Gregor Gall



Part I Components, Characteristics and Context



1. Union identity and appeal – Lorenzo Frangi and Tinting Zhang



2. Union interests and ideologies – Ronaldo Munck



3. Union resources: the power-resources approach – Stefan Schmalz and Edward Webster



4. Union forms: adaptation and inertia – Chiara Benassi, Christian Ibsen and Maite Tapia



5. Union governance: South Africa and its lessons – Geoffrey Wood and Christine Bischoff



6. Union relations – Kurt Vandaele



7. Union terrains – Jamie Woodcock



Part II Space, Power and Periodization



8. The liberal capitalist starting point – Stefan Berger



9. The social democratic high point – Greg Patmore



10. The "socialist" experiment – Jeremy Morris



11. The neoliberal low point – Chris Howell



Part III The Practice of Building Presence and Power



12. Union and the agendas of joint-regulation – Miguel Martinez Lucio



13. From contesting the managerial prerogative to producing workers’ control – Alan Tuckman



14. From sectionalism and sectionality to inter-sectionality – Jenny Rodriguez



15. The rationality and limitations of labour union bureaucracy – David Camfield



16. Unions as schools for lessons in democratic citizenship: implications for union strategy – Ed Snape



17. Commitment to, and activism within, labour unionism – Jack Fiorito, Andrew Keyes, Pauline De Becdelièvre and Zachary Russell



18. Working with and learning from other social movements – Heather Connolly



19. Concentric circles of class struggle: from the workplace to the world – Marissa Brookes



20. Unions and politics: why unions are not just the economic wing of the labour movement – Jörg Nowak and Roland Erne



21. Constantly outpaced and outgunned? Unions in the platform economy – Horen Voskeritsian



22. When may the interests of labour and capital align? Johanna MacNeil and Mark Bray



Conclusion – Gregor Gall

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2025
Verlagsort Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Arbeitsrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10 1-78821-835-3 / 1788218353
ISBN-13 978-1-78821-835-1 / 9781788218351
Zustand Neuware
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