The paper uses a bilateral trade gravity model to evaluate the effects of freedom of association and collective bargaining (FACB) rights and democracy on exports, evaluating exports by labour intensity (using several classifications of industries by labour-intensity) for the 1993 to 1999 period....

In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners' actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In...

This book brings together research in gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and the growing intersection between trade unions and social movements. It offers an authoritative basis for comparative analysis in eleven countries

Front cover -- Inside front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beyond neoliberalism? -- PART I Public Investment and wages: Leading recovery -- Frank Hoffer / Don't waste the crisis: The case for...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITORIAL OVERVIEW -- 1 SUSTAINABILITY AND UNIONS: INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION ACTIONTO IMPLEMENT SUSTAINABILITY NORMS AT CORPORATE LEVEL -- 2 SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL: BUILDING AND WOOD...