Description |
1 online resource (xx, 195 pages) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Sustainability and unions: international trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level / Eberhard Schmidt -- Social partnership at the global level : Building and Woodworkers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements / Marion F. Hellmann -- Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis : exploring implications for labour research and unions / Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa -- Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops / Anibel Ferus-Comelo -- Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests : shaping the corporation of tomorrow / Richard Tudway -- Multinational companies in Bulgaria : impact on labour and social development / Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev -- Freedom of association and collective bargaining : the practice of multinational companies in Brazil / Clóvis Scherer -- Trade and development in South Africa / Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tany van Meelis -- Migration in the global economy : challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions / Ann-Marie Lorde -- European Union enlargement, workers and migration : implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland / Jane Hardy and Nick Clark -- 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 -- The Labour Platform : an alliance of trade unions in Turkey / Seyhan Erdoğdu -- Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy / Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway -- Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa / Esther de Haan and Michael Koen. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
Subject |
Labor unions.
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Globalization.
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Industrial relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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Industrial relations. (OCoLC)fst00971609
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Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
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Added Author |
Schmidt, Verena, editor.
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International Labour Organization.
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Global Union Research Network.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Trade union responses to globalization. Geneva : International Labour Office, 2007 (DLC) 2008365232 (OCoLC)192042457 |
ISBN |
9789221198611 (electronic book) |
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9221198618 (electronic book) |
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9789221198604 (paperback) |
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922119860X (paperback) |
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