1. Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe.
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Taylor, Graham and Mathers, Andrew
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LABOR unions ,SOCIAL movements ,GLOBALIZATION ,LABOR movement ,GUILDS - Abstract
This paper outlines recent examples of labor movement renewal in Europe in the context of European integration and globalization. It highlights an increasing tension between the strategy of social partnership pursued by official labor organizations and grassroots “social movement unionism.” The paper demonstrates that the prospects for successful renewal involves linking workplace mobilization and organization with wider popular struggles to form a movement against the new regionalized forms of corporate and state power. This has direct relevance to current debates in the US concerning the tension between “service” and “organizing” models and demonstrates the need for vibrant autonomous workplace unionism as well as a political dimension to labor movement renewal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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