Bruce Nissen

Gebundenes Buch

Unions in a Globalized Environment

Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles

Beschreibung

How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? This book suggest that US unions can look elsewhere to expand their role, by creating ties with workers and unions in other countries and by including immigrant workers - who are growing - in their ranks.

Autor

Bruce Nissen is Program Director at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University in Miami. He has published numerous scholarly articles and six books, including Theories of the Labor Movement (coeditor, 1987); Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions and Communities (coeditor and contributor, 1993); Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings (1995); Unions and Workplace Reorganization (editor and contributor, 1998), and Which Direction for Organized Labor? - Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations (editor and contributor, 1999). He is coeditor of Labor Studies Journal and an executive board member of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE). Recent research interests include living wage movements and immigrant experiences with organized labor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780765608697
• ISBN-10: 0765608693
• Artikelnr.: 21111239