Globalisation and trade unions

Towards a multi-level strategy

Bibliographic Data

ID21189682
AuthorsRonaldo Munck (0000-0002-7117-1099, Dublin City University, corresponding author), Ronaldo Munck Ronaldo Munck
Year2008
Volume2
Issue1
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWork Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/workorgalaboglob.2.1.0011
OpenAlexW2754808250
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

International trade unionism is facing a serious challenge from what is commonly called globalisation. Trade unions feel the need to ‘scale up’ their activities beyond their, once paramount, national terrain and to challenge capital's untrammelled forward march internationalising and commodifying everything in its path. This article examines the new forms of labour internationalism and the way in which trade unions have been creating incipient counter-hegemonic strategies. The only certainty in this globalised and complex situation is that a continuation of national era trade union strategies is not a viable path. A possible ‘transformationalist’ alternative is posed in this paper, arguing that labour needs a multi-layered and flexible response to the new global capitalist order

Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Hegemony · International trade · Internationalization · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Trade union · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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