Global anti-unionism [electronic resource] : nature, dynamics, trajectories and outcomes /
Dundon, Tony,1962-author.
Gall, G.editor.
One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Anti-unionism: Contextual and Thematic Issues; Tony Dundon and Gregor Gall -- PART I: HISTORICAL APPROACHES -- 2. Employer Opposition in the US: Anti-union Campaigning from the 1950s; John Logan -- 3. From Organised to Disorganised Capital? British Employer Associations, 1897-2010; Alan McKinlay -- 4. Economists Turn Against Unions: Historical Institutionalism to Neo-classical Individualism; Gerald Friedman -- PART II: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES -- 5. Anti-Unionism in a Coordinated Market Economy: the Case of Germany; Martin Behrens and Heiner Dribbusch -- 6. Employers Against Unions: the British Experience of Union Victimization; Gregor Gall -- 7. Beyond Union Avoidance? Exploring the Dynamics of Double-breasting Voice Regimes in Ireland; Niall Cullinane, Tony Dundon, Eugene Hickland, Tony Dobbins and Jimmy Donaghey -- 8. Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the US; Kim Moody -- 9.The State Against Unions: Australia's Neo-liberalism, 1996-2007; Rae Cooper and Bradon Ellem -- 10. Colombia: the Most Dangerous Place to be a Union Member; Daniel Blackburn and Miguel Puerto -- 11. Waves of Anti-unionism in South Korea; Chris Rowley and Kiu Sik Bae -- 12. Employer Anti-unionism in Democratic Indonesia; Michele Ford.
One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.
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