Melisa Serrano, Edlira Xhafa and Michael Fichter (eds) (2011) Trade unions and the global crisis: Labour's visions, strategies and responses. Geneva: ILO.
This new, large-scale study of trade unions around the world is available at http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_163855.pdf
This blog highlights new book publications by members of the Research Committee 44 on Labour Movements.
Monday, 14 November 2011
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset?
Lee, Chun-Yi (2011) Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset: A changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese governments. London: Routledge.
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415575935/
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415575935/
Social Failures of EU Enlargement!
Meardi, Guglielmo (2011) Social Failures of EU Enlargement: A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet . London: Routledge.
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415806794/
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415806794/
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Organize!
Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge (eds.) (2012) Organize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice. Toronto: PM Press/Between the Lines.
More info: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=422
More info: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=422
Monday, 3 October 2011
AFL-CIO's Secret War - now in paperback!
Scipes, Kim (2010) AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
For details, lists of reviews, and 20% discount on cover price, see the author's website at http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/book.htm
For details, lists of reviews, and 20% discount on cover price, see the author's website at http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/book.htm
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization - now in paperback!
Gray, Kevin (2007) Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization. London/New York: Routledge.
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415419093/
More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415419093/
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Employment Relations: A Critical and International Approach.
Dibben, P., Klerck, G. and Wood, G. (2011) Employment Relations: A Critical and International Approach. London: CIPD.
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Precarious Liberation in South Africa!
Barchiesi, Franco (2011) Precarious Liberation. Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Price: $29.95 Paperback - 384 pages (ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3610-4)
Published in cooperation with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press.
Price: $29.95 Paperback - 384 pages (ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3610-4)
Published in cooperation with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Coping with Social Change in Poland's New Capitalism
Mrozowicki, Adam (2011) Coping with Social Change. Life Strategies of Workers' in Poland's New Capitalism. Leuven: Leuven University Press
More info: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789058678652
More info: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789058678652
Friday, 11 February 2011
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (eds.) (2010) Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution. With a preface by Benedict Anderson. Leiden: Brill.
More info: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=28985
More info: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=28985
Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements
Ercüment Çelik (2010) Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa. Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers.
For more information from the publisher:
http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?isbn=9783832957216.
For more information from the publisher:
http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?isbn=9783832957216.
AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers
Scipes, Kim (2010) AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
http://lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739135015
http://lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739135015
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Collective Bargaining in South Africa
Godfrey, Shane, Maree, Johann, du Toit, Darcy and Theron, Jan (2010) Collective Bargaining in South Africa: Past, Present and Future? Claremont, Cape Town: Juta & Co.
http://www.jutalaw.co.za/catalogue
http://www.jutalaw.co.za/catalogue
Global Restructuring, Labour and Transnational Solidarity
Bieler, Andreas and Ingemar Lindberg (eds.) (2010) Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity. London: Routledge.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580830/
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580830/
Africa's Informal Workers
Lindell, Ilda (ed.) (2010) Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa. Zed Books and The Nordic Africa Institute, London/Uppsala.
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4369
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4369
Learning from the Ground UP
Choudry , Aziz and Kapoor, Dip (Eds) (2010). Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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