Sustainability and unions: international trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level / Eberhard Schmidt -- Social partnership at the global level : Building and Woodworkers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements / Marion F. Hellmann -- Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis : exploring implications for labour research and unions / Lee Pegler and Peter Knorringa -- Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops / Anibel Ferus-Comelo -- Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests : shaping the corporation of tomorrow / Richard Tudway -- Multinational companies in Bulgaria : impact on labour and social development / Nadejda Daskalova and Lyuben Tomev -- Freedom of association and collective bargaining : the practice of multinational companies in Brazil / Clóvis Scherer -- Trade and development in South Africa / Neva Seidman Makgetla and Tany van Meelis -- Migration in the global economy : challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions / Ann-Marie Lorde -- European Union enlargement, workers and migration : implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland / Jane Hardy and Nick Clark -- More than bananas : social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Urabá region of Colombia / Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Terrence McDonough -- The Labour Platform : an alliance of trade unions in Turkey / Seyhan Erdoğdu -- Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy / Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway -- Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa / Esther de Haan and Michael Koen
Summary
Bringing together papers from some of the leading national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides a valuable overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalization
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
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