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Trade union theory from Marx to Walesa
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ISBN: 0854961860 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford Berg


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Insurgency Trap
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ISBN: 1322523029 080147051X 9780801470516 0801452694 0801479312 0801470501 9781322523026 9780801470509 9780801452697 9780801479311 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process of capitalist industrialization is certainly not unique to China and indeed has appeared in a wide array of countries around the world. What is distinct in China, however, is the combination of postsocialist politics with rapid capitalist development.Other countries undergoing capitalist industrialization have incorporated relatively independent unions to tame labor conflict and channel insurgent workers into legal and rationalized modes of contention. In contrast, the Chinese state only allows for one union federation, the All China Federation of Trade Unions, over which it maintains tight control. Official unions have been unable to win recognition from workers, and wildcat strikes and other forms of disruption continue to be the most effective means for addressing workplace grievances. In support of this argument, Friedman offers evidence from Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, where unions are experimenting with new initiatives, leadership models, and organizational forms.

The crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe : the search for alternatives.
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ISBN: 9780754670537 0754670538 1315615142 1317036905 9786611969080 1281969087 0754695611 9781315615141 9781317036890 9781317036906 Year: 2009 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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There is a developing crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe; this volume outlines the crisis and examines the emerging alternatives. Examining the experience of Sweden, Germany, Britain and France, the volume explores the historical rise and fall of social democratic trade unionism and probes the policy and practice of the European Trade Union Confederation.

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