Bring Out Yer Dead: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Trade Unionism  

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Lopez, Steven H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Work & Occupations vol. 32 no. 3 (Aug. 2005), page 355-359.
Topik: trade unions; labor relations; labor revitalization; social movement unionism; neoliberalism
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This article reviews three recent books about challenges facing contemporary labor movements. Clawson’s argument that U.S. labor unions ought to seek a fusion with 1960s social movements to build a broad challenge to neoliberal politics reflects the seriousness of labor’s crisis in the United States; his argument is an important one but does not adequately explore the obstacles and difficulties involved in such a fusion. The contributors to Michael Gold’s volume are much more optimistic about labor’s future in Europe, but the contribution of neoliberal restructuring to widening cracks in Europe’s social pacts and a gradual weakening of labor’s position there are evident. Contributors to Cornfield and McCammon’s volume raise doubts about European labor movements’ long-term ability to resist neoliberal pressures and demonstrate how in the global South neoliberalism has paralyzed some countries’ labor movements and sparked grassroots resistance in others.

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