... Norman Handelsunion AG Hoesch Werke AG Hoesch Hüttenwerk Oberhausen AG HOAG Klöckner AG Krupp Mannesmann AG Düsseldorf Rheinische Stahlwerk AG Rheinstahl European Coal and Steel Community ECSC Fichter Michael Office of Labor Affairs Strategic Command of the Allied Powers SCAP trade unionism...

..., to the training for directional running and the upgrading of Southern Pacific Railroad lines and facilities. Union Pacific's managers understood this, and so did the trade unions, whose people worked hard to clear the congestion. The solution to the congestion proved to be exactly what Dick Davidson, Dennis Duffy...

...This chapter addresses the role of trade unions at the two plants. The Japanese model and lean production have been used to argue that employees no longer need the protection of trade unions from their employer, since a new unitarism will characterize contemporary workplace relations...

...This chapter examines the relationship between migrant workers and trade unions in different host countries. Based on a series of biographic interviews with Estonian migrant workers in Finland and Albanian workers in Italy and Greece, it makes the case that when migrants join unions, it is usually...

... to the concept of ‘freedom of association’ (FOA)—the right of workers to form and join trade unions—as a basis for fortifying worker voice. Unlike recent work that seeks to build upon the FOA (to derive, e.g.,a right to strike), this chapter investigates its underpinnings. Drawing on Philip Pettit's...

... Aluminium Company NALCO disinvestments in Nayveli Lignite Corporation disinvestments in Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction BIFR Sengupta Committee legislation trade unions Trade Union Act 1926 Contract Labour Regulation and Abolition Act CLRA Act 1970 factory employment stagnation...

...In finding an explanation for the contraction of collective bargaining and the decline in trade unions, some of the most commonplace conclusions involve how unions were not able to bring about significant effects on the decline process even though these were also affected by various economic...

... of publishing enterprises, and the working practices which they have engendered. The role of Britain’s powerful printing trade unions is thus afforded detailed attention. The study shows how, during the nineteenth century, the rise of mass-circulation consumer magazines and related systems of mass production...

... departments, where a relatively small number of adult males exercised authority within a predominantly female and juvenile workforce. This book also looks at work experience, trade unions and industrial relations, employment in the coal and cotton industries in Lancashire, industrial welfare in the two...

...Over the half-century from 1880, class identities in Britain appeared to find their most overt expression in the growth of trade-union organisation. Associational ties, for long confined to craft minorities, came to extend to a peak of more than eight million workers by 1920. At the same time...

...Although Swiss unions are notionally independent from political parties, this chapter distinguishes three currents within the Swiss labour movement: a left-wing current around the Swiss Trade Union Confederation (SGB-USS), related to Social Democrats (SP-PS); a Catholic current around...

... and its alliances with trade unions contradict the neoliberal capitalist origins of its funder. It is argued that philanthropic funding does not inevitably moderate community development’s political goals. However, its worker empowerment agenda cannot be regarded as a complete victory for counter...

...This chapter describes the changes in the early institutional period after the passage of the 1917 Constitution. It analyzes the increase in labor violence, the changed trade unions of that period, and most important, the new power of workers and unions over the shop floor. The labor regime of 1917...

... politics and social practices of the wider trade union movement within the factory, but was ultimately constrained by the constraints of working solely within the issues which the workforce defined as legitimately “industrial”. Looking at the experiences of far-left activists in the context...

...This chapter focuses on the foreign and defence policy of the Labour Party during the 1970s. During this time, the party's political programme moved to the left in an attempt to recuperate its base inside the trade unions and reconnect with the constituency parties. The party became united...

... sustainable development European Works Councils EWCs freedom of association Hammer N International Labour Organisation ILO social dialogue ‘subsidiarity’ clauses trade unions development economic development environmental protection Robinson J social development deregulation developing countries...

... unionism Fine J ‘organizing model’ of worker mobilization trade unions United States worker mobilization workers’ centres McAlevey J migrant workers Birmingham City Council UK care workers earnings wages Independent Workers of Great Britain IWGB IWGB Independent Workers of Great Britain...

...This chapter examines the participation of women in trade unions in Liverpool during the period from 1890 to 1914. It explains that the rise of New Unionism brought many women into trade unions where they received their first taste of public work and highlights the heavily gendered approach towards...

... perspective. Thereafter, the chapter focuses on economic groups, i.e. business associations and trade unions, and examines two key dimensions in particular, namely organizational features and mobilization strategies. Lastly, the chapter discusses recent developments and the challenges ahead. interest groups...