Union retreat and the regions : the shrinking landscape of organized labour
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Union retreat and the regions : the shrinking landscape of organized labour
(Regional policy and development series, 8)
J. Kingsley , Regional Studies Association, 1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 211-226
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the last 15 years, the substantial restructuring of western economies has confronted trade unions with the most intense changes and challenges they have had to face for more than half a century: in many countries union membership has fallen sharply and the power of the trade unions has been considerably weakened. Drawing on the data from a large scale ESRC-funded research project, the authors make a comprehensive analysis of the regional and local dimensions of trade union decline and industrial relations changes of the past 15 years, relating their findings to wider conceptual and empirical issues. Linking regional structure, trends in trade unionism and industrial relations to the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets, this book is an important synthesis of economic geography and labour relations work.
Table of Contents
- Institutional spaces - towards a theoretical geography of trade unionism
- globalization and a peculiar tradition - British trade unionism in international context
- the contours of change - regional geographies of unionism and militancy
- decentralization and local industrial policies
- strategic spaces - union responses to decline and restructuring.
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