Organizing Matters

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Guy Mundlak
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EnglishAbstract
Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.
Keywords
trade unions book; revitalization; Freedom of association; organizing; industrial relationsISBN
9781839104039, 9781839104022Publisher
Edward Elgar PublishingPublisher website
www.elgaronline.com; e-elgar.comPublication date and place
2020Series
ILERA Publication series,Classification
Law