Labour worldwide in the era of globalization
Subtitle: alternative union models in the new world order
By: edited by Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman.
Contributors: Munck, Ronnie, 1951-; Waterman, Peter, 1936-
Series: International political economy series
Publisher: Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: International division of labor.; International labor activities.; Labor unions.
Description: Internationally the trade union movement is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually reinforcing processes - the ongoing world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neoliberalism; the collapse of communism and radical nationalism; the decline of the social-democratic or labour tradition - and by a globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned.

The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labour to recover or reinvent itself. They see this in terms of a labour response to the waves of energy coming from the new global social movements (women, ecology, human rights/democracy, and so on).