Globalization and Third World trade unions : the challenge of rapid economic change
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Globalization and Third World trade unions : the challenge of rapid economic change
Zed, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This study is the outcome of a series of investigations into the deep crisis in which the organized labour movement in the South finds itself as a result of changes in the global economy. The regional overviews and illustrative case studies from Asia, Latin America and Africa show how trade unions currently face a variety of difficult challenges. These include new management methods, the growing influence of the informal sector and casualization of labour, and the ever-growing participation of women workers who are not currently represented adaquately by trade unions. The volume concludes with an exploration of possible strategies for the future.
Table of Contents
- The erosion of trade unions, Henk Thomas. Part 1 Asia: three highly differentiated trajectories, Henk Thomas, E.A. Ramaswamy, Amrita Chhacchi and Michael Hendriks
- economic take-off - trade unions and Malaysia, Syed Hussein Ali
- relative stagnation - Pakistan's labour movement, Charles Amjad-Ali. Part 2 Latin America: the very long march of history, Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt and Frits Wils
- free market economics and belated democratization - the case of Chile, Patricio Frias and Jamie Ruiz-Tagle
- decline of an oil economy - Venezuela's unions and the legacy of incorporation, Domingo Mendez-Rivero. Part 3 Africa: a context of sharp economic decline, Paschal Mihyo and Freek Schiphorst
- against overwhelming odds - the Zambian trade union movement, Paschal Mihyo
- the emergence of civil society - the new place of unions in Zimbabwe, Freek Schiphorst. Part 4 Concluding observations: challenges facing trade unions, Henk Thomas. Appendix: selected socio-economic indicators.
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