(Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)
by Christian Lévesque (Editor), Peter Fairbrother (Editor), Blandine Emilien (Editor), María C. González (Editor), Lucie Morissette (Editor)
Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance
is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It
addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the
experiments that may take place at this level of governance.
The
book addresses pressing questions concerned with the conditions for
better work and a humane society. The focus is on the capacities of
unions to address questions relating to regional governance, in both
supranational and sub-national regions. It examines workers and their
unions in a variety of contexts: multinationals, industries, workplaces,
and communities. The authors address the experiments that can be
initiated by unions, governments, or employers and the ways in which
collective organisations engage to address these matters in regional
contexts. The analysis takes as a starting point the fracturing and
divisions evident in various regions, in Australia, Canada, Mexico,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and USA. The contributors propose novel
analyses with lessons for unions. It should be of interest to union
activists and leaders, political parties, governments, and those who
make decisions in and about regions.
Researchers and students of labour markets, political mobilisation, and employment relations will take the analyses further.
