This paper examines how the democratic transition in Korea affected firm strategy through the changes in industrial relations. The existing studies have pointed out that it unleashed workers’ demand that had been suppressed by the authoritarian regime, though there was little disaggregated...

Anhand von Paneldaten für Deutschland, die Schweiz, Großbritannien und die USA wird die Auswirkung der Mitgliedschaft in einer Gewerkschaft auf Parteipräferenzen untersucht. Die Kontrolle zeitinvarianter Selektionseffekte stellt heraus, dass Gewerkschaften einen zwar leichten, aber stetigen...

Solidarity is probably one of the most undeniable concepts of the social sciences as it is present in every group formation being this a country, a family or a trade union. But globalization has questioned the core of traditional solidarity and has challenged us to find new forms of solidarity...

This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to...

The paper summarizes the rationale and contents of a conference held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in December 2020, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Statuto dei lavoratori (Charter of Workers' Rights): a reform that represents an important advancement in Italian civic...

The role of trade unions in contemporary industrial relation system is increasingly deflating as many work organizations (formal and informal) now engage in labour casualization. Labour casualization is the process where workers in an organization are casual, temporary, seasonal, contract or...

How can workers have a voice in the face of declining unionization and rising nontraditional career paths? To demonstrate how a new labor market institution can emerge, I develop a model of fundraising by a workers' organization in which the founder must allocate resources between the provision...

"Addresses the role that the U.S. labor movement has or could have in forging a 'just transition' away from dependence on fossil fuels toward a Green New Deal to address the dual crises of climate change and inequality."

"The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor...

"Collection of stories by Paul Lafargu including The Right to Be Lazy; A Capitalist Catechism; The Legend of Victor Hugo and Memories of Karl Marx. Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of...

"In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle. The event culminated in five days of chaotic political protest that would later be known as the Battle in Seattle. The convergence represented the pinnacle of decades of...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Conceptual perspectives and approaches -- 2 Job instability, precarity, informality, and inequality: labour in the gig economy -- 3...

CHAPTER 1 – Organizing away from the gaze: Local knowledges, new futures, Mahuya Pal, Joëlle Cruz, and Debashish Munshi -- Part I: Decolonizing dominant epistemologies -- CHAPTER 2 – Decolonizing knowledge: Cultural aspirations, political self-determination, and social rights in knowledge...

"A short and possibly the first accessible overview of Operaismo (or "workerism," or "Autonomous Marxism"), which was the movement out of which today's general body of "Italian Theory" (Negri, Berardi, Virno, etc.) emerged."

"Forming and defending unions in the United States has always been a Herculean task. Employers have a long history of fighting vigorously to bust strikes and prevent workers from organizing- and, ultimately to dis-organize unions. The government, including politicians, local officials, and the...

"This fourth edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book explores why workers form unions; assesses their organization and democratic potential; examines issues related to collective bargaining, grievances and strike...

This chapter makes the argument that labour agency in the platform economy in Europe has given rise to a plethora of new informal and formal organisations for mutual aid and worker representation. This organisational experimentation is commonly initially based on digital online communities....

This article argues that more emphasis should be paid to the communicative power of trade unionism because it may constitute a starting point or a privileged standpoint which a trade union may use to counter its weakness regarding its other sources of power. Reviewing the trade union...

The Government Shutdown of 2018-2019 ran for 35 days, from December 22, 2018 – January 25, 2019. It was the longest shutdown in the history of the United States. Most all Federal agencies were affected, and 800,000 federal workers were directly impacted by furloughs and delayed paychecks. The...

We examine the relation between the CEO's childhood socioeconomic class and corporate labor policies. We find that CEOs raised in low socioeconomic class families are less likely to invest in employee friendly firm policies measured by several types of labor and employment litigation, including...

The Context -- Unions, Federations and Politics -- The Challenge of the Workers -- The State and Labour -- Public Sector Workers -- Plantation Workers -- Dockworkers and Sailors -- Industrial and Urban Transport Workers.

"Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, Palmer builds on his...

"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states-Arizona-and offering a nuanced look at the modern-day labor movement and...

"During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists...