Download or read book Parties And Unions In The New Global Economy written by Katrina Burgess and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, unions played a vital role in shaping political regimes and economic development strategies, particularly in Latin America and Europe. However, their influence has waned as political parties with close ties to unions have adopted neoliberal reforms harmful to the interests of workers.What do unions do when confronted with this "loyalty dilemma"? Katrina Burgess compares events in three countries to determine the reasons for widely divergent responses on the part of labor leaders to remarkably similar challenges. She argues that the key to understanding why some labor leaders protest and some acquiesce lies essentially in two domains: the relative power of the party and the workers to punish them, and the party's capacity to act autonomously from its own government.

Download or read book The Political Role of Labor in Developing Countries written by Bruce H. Millen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on political aspects of trade unionism in developing countries - covers administrative aspects, financial aspects, leadership problems, interest groups and pluralism, the union's role in nationalism, union and political party relationships, collective bargaining constraints, etc. Bibliography pp. 138 to 142.

Download or read book Unions Parties and Development written by Robert H. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Union Development and Industrial Relations in the British West Indies written by William H. Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Trade Unions and the Labour Party written by Andrew Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development of the Independent Free Trade Union Solidarity Into a Political Party written by Jill Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Powers and Union Functions written by Committee for Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa written by J. Kraus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, top scholars look at the efficacy of trade union and worker protest in overthrowing authoritarian governments in Africa. The analytical introduction and case studies from major African countries argue that unions were often the most important single social force in the democratization process.

Download or read book Trade Unions the Labour Party and the Law written by Keith D. Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph (thesis) commenting on the impact of 1913 labour legislation regulating trade union financing of political participation and relations with the Labour political party in the UK - discusses the development of the Labour Party, objectives and current functioning of the Act, nature of the activity it regulates, union membership rights to opt out of the political fund, enforcement practice and procedure (incl. Dispute settlement) etc., provides comparisons with other developed countries, and includes issues for reform and the text of the Act. References.

Download or read book Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic written by Vaughn Davis Bornet and published by Washington, Spartan Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular historical account of the development of the labour movement in the USA. The background of the government elections in 1928. The relationship of workers social status and influence of political parties. Politics adopted by trade unions and their leadership.

Download or read book Unions Matter written by Matthew Behrens and published by Between the Lines(CA). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace worker rights and build a better democracy

Download or read book The Politics of Labour and Development in Trinidad written by Ray Kiely and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a labour history of Trinidad and Tobago, concentrating on the period from 1937 to 1990. The study attempts to show that there is not a unified or homogenous working class, and for this reason both traditional Marxist and industrial relations theories are rejected. Instead, the history of labour focuses on how the working classes have been divided by factors such as race, gender, class structure and politics. These divisions are used as an explanation for the absence of a popular socialist party in the country. It concludes that the economic recession of the 1980s has led to the worst crisis in the history of the labour movement, but at the same time, this has laid the framework for a new strategy of social movement unionism, which attempts to constructively engage with, rather than ignore, divisions within the working classes. The main sources of data were documentary and archival material, and in particular, reports made by the British TUC and Colonial Office, industrial relations legislation, and trade union and political party documents and manifestoes. For the contemporary period, these sources of data were supplemented by fifteen interviews with leading figures in trade union and labour politics. The work is based on a macro approach to the study of labour, and as such constitutes a new and original approach to the study of labour in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, more contemporary trade union documents and interviews provided the researcher with new and original material.

Download or read book Spearheads of Democracy written by George C. Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) from the John Holmes Library collection.

Download or read book The Role of Trade Unions in the Development Process written by Ukandi Godwin Damachi and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1974 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study of the political participation of the trade unions and their role in the economic development process in Ghana, demonstrating a pattern whereby periods of political control of the unions by the government are followed by periods of political upheaval - covers trade union experiences and labour relations trends during each phase of political leadership from 1957 to january 1972, comments on labour policy, etc., and includes the results of various interviews. Bibliography and references.

Download or read book Political Parties and Political Development SPD 6 written by Joseph La Palombara and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of specialists trace the origins and development of political parties, explore their impact on the system in which they exist, and raise new questions about the potential role of parties. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book The Role of Labor Unions in Fostering Economic Development written by John H. Pencavel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1995 In this essay on how labor unions work, the author proposes a framework for the law on collective bargaining in developing countries. The structure of developing economies cannot sustain as high a level of unionism as in industrial economies. Typically less (often much less) than a quarter of the workers in a developing country are covered by collective bargaining agreements-and those covered (the labor elite) are likely to be employed by the state and by large private sector employers. In this setting, the author says, states sometimes adopt either a patronage regime (nourishing unionism and collective bargaining) or an obstructionist regime (undermining and subverting it). Patronage regimes are found in Bangladesh, India, and certain African and West Indian countries (many of them former British colonies), countries in which close ties exist between political parties (sometimes including the governing party), and labor unions. Some of the features of obstructionist regimes are found in certain countries in Southeast Asia and North Africa. In both patronage and obstructionist regimes, unions are highly politicized. Because that state routinely figures in defining the union's effective environment, the union's relationship with state and political leaders becomes more important than its dealings with the employers of the workers they represent. Not only may agreements bear no relation to a firm's economic circumstances, but they increase dissonance between workers and union leaders. What is needed instead is a system of collective bargaining that directs unions' efforts to the ultimate lasting source of their members welfare: the firm they work for. Ultimately, improving workers' standard of living required growth in productivity, argues the author. Raising a worker's earning by redistributing income from profits, dividends, and interest cannot sustain a persistent rise in earnings. And mandating or encouraging high wage policies (as in Latin America and the Caribbean) discourages the economic growth that is the ultimate durable source of improvements in workers living standards. Unions can help raise productivity in the workplace by participating with management in the search for better ways of organizing production. It is important for workers not to feel alienated from the system and to believe they have a stake in it. They value the fact that they or their agents help to shape the working environment. In determining the rules of the game in which labor unions operate, societies have wrestled with the problem of finding the proper balance between upholding the principle of free association, on the one hand, and on granting entitlement that result in resource inefficiencies at best and ultimately in challenges to the authority of the democratic state at worst. Governments' main responsibility in labor relations is to set up the regulations that underpin labor market interactions, including the legal framework should neither encourage nor discourage unionism, says the author, but should keep the activities of unions in the domain where they can be productive: the enterprise.

Download or read book The Unions and the Democrats written by Taylor E. Dark and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation.