Transformations of Trade Unionism : Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries

Transformations of Trade Unionism Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries

The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers' resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will not be uniformly duplicated or copied from their present form in the global...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Knotter, Ad, 1952- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2018]
Edition:First edition
Series:Work around the globe.
Subjects:
Labor unions > Europe > History.
Labor unions > United States > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431217806719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures, tables and appendices
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. An international of insolence
  • 2. Transnational cigar-makers
  • 3. From artisanal associations to collective bargaining agents
  • 4. Trade unions and workplace organization
  • 5. From placement control to control of the unemployed
  • 6. The transnational origins of Dutch miners' unionism
  • 7. Justice for Janitors goes Dutch
  • Conclusion: Past and future transformations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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