Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in Multinational Companies
Subtitle: Comparisons in Multinational Companies
By: Guglielmo Meardi
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781315185897
Subjects: Labor unions; Italian Corporations; Case studies; Management; Industrial relations; Syndicats; Sociétés italiennes; Études de cas; Gestion; Relations industrielles
Description: "This title was first published in 2000: This text concerns the transformation of class consciousness. It shows that differences between trade union activists from the East and West are not inherited from the past but are socially constructed, and that Eastern trade unions are "no longer" like their Western counterparts, as opposed to "not yet" like them. The study concentrates mainly on Italy and Poland, with East and West referring to concepts and perceptions rather than as a geographical concern. It discovers whether the differences in trade union consciousness are due to the meaning members give a situation or the specificity of the local work settings."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter 1 Understanding Trade Union Activists  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter 2 Interviewing Trade Union Activists  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter 3 Deconstructing Class Consciousness: the Paradoxical Parallelism of East and West  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter 4 The Making of a New European Divide  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter 5 The Challenge of Difference  -- Guglielmo Meardi; title: chapter Conclusion -- Guglielmo Meardi.