Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives and New Initiatives

Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives and New Initiatives

Labor revitalization is among the first works to examine variations among the nations in the wide array of initiatives labor unions and labor movements are taking to strengthen themselves and recruit new members. Moving beyond previous research on the factors leading to union decline, then international group of scholars who have contributed to this volume present new research and unveil a new research agenda on the many initiatives' unions are taking, and the different social, economic, and political challenges they face in several world regions, as labor movements endeavor to revitalize themselves. These revitalizing initiatives include changing labor leadership and membership organizing strategies; “social movement unionism”; and pursuing political and legal reform that achieves freedom of association. The contemporary cases of labor revitalization in this volume have occurred in in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Korea, Mexico and the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela. The new research agenda presented here rests on the conceptualization of labor as “socially strengthening themselves by redefining their relationship with workers, employers and states”. Each of the three parts of labor revitalization addresses labor’s changing relationship with workers, employers, and states, respectively. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and policymakers in sociology, economics, political science, labor studies and labor- management relations, human resource management, and public policy studies.

Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon  

JAI, Elsevier Science

2003

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