Break or weld? trade union responses to global value chain restructuring

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Break or weld? trade union responses to global value chain restructuring

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Spring 2008

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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This paper provides a short introduction to this volume, sketching out some of the main dilemmas confronting trade unions in the context of global value chain restructuring, discussing some of the alternative strategies currently being adopted around the world and summarising the contributions to this volume.

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Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Spring 2008

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-10

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[1] Altvater, E. & B. Mahnkopf (2002) Globalisierung der Unsicherheit – Arbeit im Schatten, schmutziges Geld und informelle Politik , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot

[2] Beiler, A., I. Lindberg & D. Pillay (2008) Labour and the Challenges if Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? , London: Pluto Press

[3] Belghazi, S. (2006) in U. Huws, A. Dhudwar & S. Dahlmann, The Transformation of Work in a Global Knowledge Economy: towards a conceptual framework , proceedings of conference held in Chania, Greece, 21–22 September, Leuven: Higher Institute of Labour Studies:247–251

[4] Coates D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era , Basingstoke: Polity Press

[5] Cohen, R. (2006) Migration and its Enemies: Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation State , Aldershot: Ashgate

[6] Department of Trade and Industry, (2004) Trade and Investment White Paper: Making Globalisation a Force for Good , London, DTI, 2004–11-10.

[7] Fairbrother, P. & C. Yates (eds) (2003) Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study , London: Routledge

[8] Economist (2007) ‘Time to Break off a Chunk’, December 13.

[9] Economist (2008) ‘The Rise and Rise of Private Equity’, World in 2008 . Accessed on March 20, 2008 from http://www.economist.com/theworldin/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10125441

[10] Economist (2008b) ‘Asset-backed insecurity’, Jan 17.

[11] Frege, C.M. & J. Kelly (2005) Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy , Oxford: Oxford University Press

[12] Hall P.A. & D. D. Soskice (2001) Varieties of capitalism, the institutional foundations of comparative advantage , Oxford: Oxford University Press

[13] Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? The destruction of occupational identities in the Knowledge-based Economy’, Monthly Review , Vol 57 No 8 January

[14] Huws, U. (2006b) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’, Monthly Review , Vol 57 No 10, March

[15] Huws, U. & S. Dahlmann (2007) ‘Global restructuring of Value Chains and Class issues’, in proceedings of ISA Conference: Work and Employment: New Challenges, Montreal, August 28–30

[16] Jose, A.V. (ed) (2002) Organized Labour in the 21st Century , Geneva: International Labour Organisation, 2002

[17] Kumar, P. & C. Schenk (eds) (2005) Paths to Union Renewal , Calgary: Broadview Press,

[18] McKinsey Global Institute (2004), ‘Offshoring: is it a Win-win Game?’. Accessed in November, 2004 from http://www.McKinsey.com

[19] Moody, K. (2007) US Labor in Trouble and Transition , London: Verso

[20] Pilch, T. (ed) (2007) Trades Unions and Globalisation , London: Smith Institute

[21] Press, M. (1989) ‘The People's Movement’ in M. Press & U. Huws (eds) Solidarity for Survival: the Don Thompson Reader , Nottingham: Spokesman:26–47

[22] Schmidt, V. (ed) (2007) Trade Union Responses to Globalization: a Review by the Global Union Research Network , Geneva: International Labour Organisation

[23] Woods. E.M. (1998) ‘Labor, Class and State in Global Capitalism’, in E.M. Woods, P. Meiksins & M. Yates (eds) Rising from the Ashes: Labor in the Age of ‘Global Capitalism’ , New York: Monthly Review Press:3–16