Download or read book Trade Unions and their Members written by Heeryd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of trade union democracy has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. The government has pursued a policy designed in part to 'give unions back to their members' and the decline in the numbers of employees joining unions raises the question of whether trade unionism is losing its relevance. This book presents research papers which deal with these issues and reveals how the unions are adopting to legislative and other changes as they enter the 1990s.
Download or read book Trade Unions And Democracy written by Mark Harcourt and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade Unions and Democracy explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. As civil society agents, unions may promote democracy within the wider society, especially in the case of authoritarian regimes or other rigid political systems, by acting as watchdogs and protecting hard-won democratic gains. Established democratic institutions in many advanced societies are facing new challenges. The problem with using trade unions for this purpose is that they remain locked in a cycle of political marginalization and decline. Beyond this, there are, ironically, serious questions about whether unions themselves internally function as democracies. Certainly there are tensions between rank and file membership and an authoritarian leadership, with this infighting having possible effects on strategic deals or alliances and member accountability and actions. On the other hand, trade unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialized countries, and in many case, they have a demonstrated capacity for working with other elements of civil society. Looking forward, trade unions may be able to play a vital role in channeling and focusing spontaneous popular upsurges. In the process, they may revitalize themselves through use of greater internal democracy and become geared toward more diverse constituencies. The question is, will they fulfill this promise or continue to suffer from internal breakups and external breakdowns? Can trade unions save themselves and democracy, or will both deteriorate in time? Trade Unions and Democracy brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society. It explores their capacity to affect political policies to ensure greater accountability and fairness. It also explores the nature of and extent to which internal representative democracy actually operates within trade unions themselves. Mark Harcourt is a professor in the Department of Strategic Management and Leadership at Waikato University in New Zealand.
Download or read book Gender and Leadership in Unions written by Gill Kirton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Leadership in Trade Unions explores and evaluates the similarities and differences in equality strategies pursued by unions in the US and the UK. It assesses the conditions experienced by women union members and how these impact on their leadership, both potential and actual. The discussion of women trade union leaders is situated more broadly within debates on governance, leadership and democracy within social justice activism.
Download or read book Democracy Social Justice and the Role of Trade Unions written by Caroline Kelly and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effectively navigate this deeply contradictory challenge. It is underpinned by the conviction that trade unions are – and should be – vital institutions for democracy and social justice. Written by leading scholars in industrial relations and labour law as well as those in political philosophy and political science, the collection tackles a range of pressing topics for trade unions including: the climate crisis; the COVID-19 pandemic; economic democracy; democracy within trade unions; precarious work; and election campaigns.
Download or read book American Trade Union Democracy written by William Morris Leiserson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-03-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflict and Democracy written by John Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on internal trade union conflict and democracy in the UK - examines types and patterns of conflict between union leadership and membership, includes case studies of organised conflict between trade union officers and members in 3 different unions (seafarers, bus drivers and insurance agents), and discusses trade union structure and internal divisions of interest, unofficial strike actions, union discipline, militancy, political aspects, etc. References.
Download or read book Governing Trade Unions in Sweden written by Leif Lewin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of trade union decision making in Sweden - discusses the theoretical and historical background, trade union structure, geographic distribution, affiliation with political partys, internal conflicts between leadership and membership, attitudes on wage policies, governance types, authority and problems of democracy within the movement, successes and failures, etc.; attempts to develop an interactive democratic model of collective participation. Graphs, illustrations, map and references.
Download or read book Democracy in the International Association of Machinists written by Mark Perlman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Dynamics and the Trade union Leader written by Lois MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reigniting the Labor Movement written by Gerald Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement‘s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earlies
Download or read book Trade Unions and Democracy written by Mark Harcourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. Despite conventionally being portrayed as politically marginalised and in terminal decline, trade unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialised countries and have demonstrated a capacity for revival and renewal in the face of difficult corcumstances. It brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society, their capacity to impact on state policies in such a manner as to ensure greater accountability and fairness, and the nature and extent of internal representative democracy within the labour movement. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in industrial relations, critical management studies, political studies and sociology.
Download or read book Comparative Union Democracy written by J. David Edelstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illustrates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, formal organization itself can constrain a tendency toward oligarchy by stimulating union competition among full-time officers attempting to rise in the union hierarchy.Comparative Union Democracy is easily the best work on the subject that has appeared in years. It should be required reading for all those interested in organizational government, participatory democracy, generally, as well as in the labor movement.
Download or read book Spearheads of Democracy written by George C. Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) from the John Holmes Library collection.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Industrial Democracy written by Clinton Strong Golden and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First edition." "Notes and references": pages 349-351.
Download or read book Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership written by Sue Ledwith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political organizational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector. This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences of union leaders and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and transforming the inertia of traditionalism.
Download or read book Trade Unions in the New Society written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world. Harold J. Laski contrasts their function in a capitalist or socialist society with what it became under Russian totalitarianism. This book explores the relation between trade unions and the public, trade unions and the law and trade unions and democracy to show the impact of developments such as mass production, social security and a planned economy on the position of the working man and considers the proper role of the government in disputes which may affect the basic public welfare. Most important of all, possibly, are Laski’s observations on the desirability of labour activity in organised politics. Trade Unions in the New Society will be of immense interest for scholars and researchers of politics, political economy, labour studies, and for all who are concerned with the future of democracy.
Download or read book Trade Unions and Sustainable Democracy in Africa written by Gerard Kester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume sets out to open a dialogue with the trade union movement and its social partners including civil society, political leaders and the scientific community. The authors, all of whom work closely with APADEP, have drawn on their personal experience and have been guided by a simple, yet flexible, theme: trends in the last few decades in their countries, with the emphasis on transition over the last five years. Part I consists of an overview of sub-Saharan Africa based on selected documentation. Part II is given over to an analysis of the specific situations obtaining in ten African countries in different geographical and language areas. Each case study provides its own democratisation scenario.
