Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism

Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism
Author: Rohini Hensman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231519567

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While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries, especially for women, globalization has formed a basis for stronger workers' rights, even in remote sites of production. Using India's labor movement as a model, Rohini Hensman charts the successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, of the struggle for workers' rights and organization in a rich and varied nation. As Indian products gain wider acceptance in global markets, the disparities in employment conditions and union rights between such regions as the European Union and India's vast informal sector are exposed, raising the issue of globalization's implications for labor. Hensman's study examines the unique pattern of "employees' unionism," which emerged in Bombay in the 1950s, before considering union responses to recent developments, especially the drive to form a national federation of independent unions. A key issue is how far unions can resist protectionist impulses and press for stronger global standards, along with the mechanisms to enforce them. After thoroughly unpacking this example, Hensman zooms out to trace the parameters of a global labor agenda, calling for a revival of trade unionism, the elimination of informal labor, and reductions in military spending to favor funding for comprehensive welfare and social security systems.

Wobblies of the World

Wobblies of the World
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: International labor activities
ISBN: 9780745399607

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A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Workers of the World

Workers of the World
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047442849

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The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity

The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity
Author: Kasper Braskén
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137546867

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The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks transferred visions and ideas of an alternative global community.

The Workers International (Classic Reprint)

The Workers International (Classic Reprint)
Author: Raymond Postgate
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780331493399

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Excerpt from The Workers International Internationalism. On International, an important chapter in the social history of Europe, I have had the good fortune to be able to consult the Minute book and other documentary sources. I have given great attention to the First International because I believe it to be an episode whose importance to European labour, and to British economic history has been seriously underrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Workers' International

The Workers' International
Author: Raymond Postgate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1920
Genre: Comintern
ISBN:

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The Workers State

The Workers State
Author: Mark Pittaway
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822978121

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"In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the next thirty years. In The Workers' State, Mark Pittaway presents a groundbreaking study of the complexities of the Hungarian working class, its relationship to the Communist Party, and its major political role during the foundational period of socialism (1944-1958). Through case studies of three industrial centers--Újpest, Tatabánya, and Zala County--Pittaway analyzes the dynamics of gender, class, generation, skill level, and rural versus urban location, to reveal the embedded hierarchies within Hungarian labor. He further demonstrates how industries themselves, from oil and mining to armaments and textiles, possessed their own unique labor subcultures. From the outset, the socialist state won favor with many workers, as they had grown weary of the disparity and oppression of class systems under fascism. By the early 1950s, however, a gap between the aspirations of labor and the goals of the state began to widen. In the Stalinist drive toward industrialization, stepped up production measures, shortages of goods and housing, wage and benefit cuts, and suppression became widespread. Many histories of this period have focused on Communist terror tactics and the brutal suppression of a pliant population. In contrast, Pittaway's social chronicle sheds new light on working-class structures and the determination of labor to pursue its own interests and affect change in the face of oppression. It also offers new understandings of the role of labor and the importance of local histories in Eastern Europe under communism."--Project Muse.

The Workers' Union

The Workers' Union
Author: Flora Tristan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252075292

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A nineteenth-century social reform proposal, available again