World Cities and Union Renewal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Tuft (0000-0002-7532-3301, Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 673-694 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00031.x |
| OpenAlex | W2001064767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 76 |
This article discusses how interpretive accounts and practices of labour union renewal in the Anglo-American context are linked to the forms of post-industrialism and polarized labour markets evident in world cities. I accordingly argue that the world city is implicated in various components of union renewal, including changing organizational structures, intensive organizing, leadership and democracy, coalition building, new labour internationalism, and labour-management cooperation. Furthermore, the influence of the world city can limit both the scope and scale of the union renewal narratives and practices. The article concludes with a call for the union renewal project to expand beyond world city frameworks and explore multiple sectors and spaces
Democracy · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Industrial democracy · Industrial Revolution · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Organizing the landscape
From Consent to Coercion
Unions and Communities under Siege
Spaces of Work
New State Spaces
Varieties of Unionism
Fighting for a Living Wage
The Next Upsurge
Uneven Development
Rekindling the Movement
Hard Work
Organizing Immigrants
Globalization and Its Discontents
Mapping the Futures
Temporary Work
Capital Culture
Ecology of Fear
Bargaining for the space to organize in the global economy
Debates and Developments. Competitive Cities and Secure Nations
Unequal City
Canadian Union Strategies in the Context of Change
Geographies of Labor Internationalism
Community Unionism in Canada and Labor's (Re)Organization of Space
Justice for Janitors
Further Reflections on Organized Labor and Deindustrialization in the United States
Embedded Internationalisms
The Geography of Union Organising in Low‐Paid Service Industries in the UK
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Toronto Inc? Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto
Political Economies of Day Labour
Organizing European Labour
Community unionism and trade union renewal in the UK
Labour in ‘lean’ times
Trade unions, coalitions and communities
Re-scaling collective bargaining
Building the ‘competitive city’
The social construction of the service sector
Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy
Trade union responses to workplace restructuring
Changing scale as changing class relations
Labour geographies
The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
Emerging Labour Strategies in Toronto's Hotel Sector
Australian Trade Unions and the Politics of Scale
Public Sector Unions Shaping Hospital Privatization
The World City Hypothesis
Organizing the Scale of Labor Regulation in the United States
Class, Geography, and the Consumerist Turn
The Canadian Auto Workers
Building reciprocal community unionism in the UK
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)
Does the 'organizing model' represent a credible union renewal strategy
Lessons From Living-Wage Campaigns
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2017 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |