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Author Lévesque, Christian

Title Trade Unions and Regions Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (227 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context Ser
Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context Ser
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Understanding Union Power and Regional Governance -- Unions -- Regions and Regional Governance -- Workers, Unions, and Regional Governance -- The Making of Experimentation -- Using Power Resources -- The Processes and Consequences of Experimentation -- The Book and Its Focus -- Organisational Experimentations -- Institutional Experimentations -- Comparative Studies of Experimentation
The Interconnections between Organisational and Institutional Experimentation -- References -- Part I: Organisational Experimentations -- 2. Urban Regimes: Experiments and Institutional Innovation -- Introduction -- Urban Regimes and Forms of Governance -- Bristol: Understanding Urban Regimes -- The Fordist/Labourist Urban Regime 1950s-1970s -- Bristol and the Neo-liberal Revolution 1970s-2000s -- From Neo-liberalism to Partnership and Networked Governance? -- Conclusions -- Note -- References
3. Collective Bargaining and Regional Resilience: Recalibrating Labour Relations in the Great Lakes Region Automotive Industry -- Introduction -- The GLR Automotive Industry -- Automotive Production in the GLR -- Auto Industry Collective Bargaining in the United States and Canada -- Restoring Regional Competitiveness: Concessionary Bargaining in the Great Lakes Auto Industry: 2000-2015 -- The Advent of Ultra-Concessionary Bargaining: 2003-2007 -- The 2008-2009 Bankruptcy Restructuring Crisis -- Post-Crisis Bargaining: 2011-2015 -- The 2016 Unifor-D-3 Contract Negotiations in Canada
Context for Negotiations -- Bargaining Process and Outcomes -- Assessment of Outcomes -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Institutional Experimentation -- 4. Reflections on Labour Strategy in Urban and Regional Governance -- Unions and Urban Political Economy -- Union Capacities within Urban Regions -- Capacity to Assemble Productive Territories -- Capacity to Balance Production and Social Reproduction -- Capacity to Grant Social Legitimacy to Growth Strategies -- Capacity to Connect Planning to Everyday Life -- Limits and Possibilities -- References
5. Institutional Experimentation in the Montreal Taxi Industry: What Role for the State and Collective Action? -- Framework of Analysis -- Methodology -- The Montreal Taxi Industry -- Research Methodology -- Presentation of Results -- Uber: From Contesting to Experimentation -- Social Innovation -- the Case of Téo Taxi -- Between Contesting, Innovation, and Experimentation -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Comparative Studies of Experimentation -- 6. Marginalising Manufacturing: The Politics of Downgrading in the UK Apparel Industry
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Growth in UK apparel manufacturing across regions and subsectors
Subject Labor unions.
Regionalism.
Employee rights.
trade unions.
Employee rights
Labor unions
Regionalism
Form Electronic book
Author Fairbrother, Peter
Emilien, Blandine
González, María C
Morissette, Lucie
ISBN 9781000632446
100063244X