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Bringing together papers from national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides an overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalisation.Globalisation has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom, Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fairer globalisation, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more.It shows how trade unions are a key part in influencing the rules of globalisation to achieve a fairer globalisation, while also playing a role in implementing and enforcing these rules
Author Notes
Verena Schmidt is a research officer in the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities in Geneva and the coordinator of the Global Union Research Network.
Table of Contents
| Acronyms | p. vii |
| About the authors/editors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xxi |
| Editorial overview | p. 1 |
| 1 Sustainability and unions: International trade union action to implement sustainability norms at corporate level | p. 11 |
| 2 Social partnership at the global level: Building and Wood Workers' International experiences with International Framework Agreements | p. 23 |
| 3 Integrating labour issues in global value chain analysis: Exploring implications for labour research and unions | p. 35 |
| 4 Paving the path toward the unionization of high-tech sweatshops | p. 51 |
| 5 Corporate governance reforms as a means of protecting and promoting worker interests: Shaping the corporation of tomorrow | p. 63 |
| 6 Multinational companies in Bulgaria: Impact on labour and social development | p. 73 |
| 7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining: The practice of multinational companies in Brazil | p. 85 |
| 8 Trade and development in South Africa | p. 97 |
| 9 Migration in the global economy: Challenges and opportunities for Caribbean trade unions | p. 113 |
| 10 European Union enlargement, workers and migration: Implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland | p. 125 |
| 11 More than bananas: Social responsibility networks and labour relations in the banana industry in the Urba region of Colombia | p. 139 |
| 12 The Labour Platform: An alliance of trade unions in Turkey | p. 153 |
| 13 Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy | p. 165 |
| 14 Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa | p. 177 |
| Conclusion | p. 191 |