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Title Global unions? : theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy / edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O'Brien
Published New York ; London : Routledge, 2002

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Description xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series RIPE series in global political economy
RIPE series in global political economy.
Contents Pt. I. International political economy and organized labour: approaches and theories -- 1. Organized labour and the global political economy / Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O'Brien -- 2. Work, production and social relations: repositioning the firm in the international political economy / Louise Amoore -- 3. Towards an international political economy of labour / Jeffrey Harrod -- 4. Internationalization, industrial relations theory and international relations / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes -- Pt. II. National and regional strategies -- 5. Organizing globally, organizing locally: union spatial strategy in a global economy / Andrew Herod -- 6. Trade unions, globalization and training: initiatives in Britain and Brazil / Janet Hannah and Maria Clara Bueno Fischer -- 7. The international dimension of labour federation economic strategy in Canada and the United States 1947-2000 / Ian Robinson -- 8. Unions, capitals and states: competing (inter)nationalisms in North American and European integration / Dimitris Stevis -- 9. International labour and regional integration in the Asia-Pacific / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes -- Pt. III. The global arena: unions and global dynamics -- 10. The constraints on labour internationalism: contradictions and prospects / Mine Eder -- 11. Labour movement renewal in the era of globalization: union responses in the South / Robert Lambert -- 12. Peripheralizing labour: the ILO, WTO and the completion of the Bretton Woods project / Rorden Wilkinson -- 13. The varied paths to minimum global labour standards / Robert O'Brien -- 14. Labour as a global social force: past divisions and new tasks / Dan Gallin
Summary This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international realtions in the global economy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Labor unions.
International labor activities.
Globalization.
Author Harrod, Jeffrey.
O'Brien, Robert, 1963-
LC no. 2002068292
ISBN 0415270081
0415288118 paperback