Community Unionism: A Comparative Analysis of Concepts and Contexts

by J. McBride (Editor), I. Greenwood (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the concept of 'community unionism', which argues that the future of the labour movement and industrial relations lies with the community and local labour markets. Providing a conceptual overview of the term, the book uses international case studies and draws on faith-based organizations to explore the issue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230572508
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/14/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

IONA BYFORD Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth Business School in the Department of HRM and Marketing, UK IAN FITZGERALD Senior Researcher in the School of the Built Environment at Northumbria University, UK IAN GREENWOOD Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in the Division of Work and Employment Relations (WERD) and a member of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK JANE HOLGATE Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK JO MCBRIDE Lecturer in Industrial Relations and HRM at the University of Bradford, School of Management, UK MIGUEL MARTINEZ LUCIO Professor at the University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, UK KIM MOODY Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Employment Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK ROBERT PERRETT Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at Bradford University School of Management, UK CAROL STEPHENSON Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Inequality at the University of Northumbria, UK PAUL STEWART Professor of the Sociology of Work and Employment, University of Strathclyde, UK JOHN STIRLING teaches employment relations and is Head of Division of Sociology and Criminology at Northumbria University, UK AMANDA TATTERSALL is a Union and Community Organizer and Researcher and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW, the PeakCentral Labour Council in New South Wales, Australia EDSON IOSHIAQUI URANO Lecturer in the Department of Portuguese Language& Luso-Brazilian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Japan

Table of Contents

PART I: UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY UNIONISM Introduction; P.Stewart, J.McBride, I.Greenwood, J.Stirling, J.Holgate, A.Tattersall, C.Stephenson & D.Wray PART II: COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY UNIONISM IN THE UK Now that the Work is Done: Community Unionism in a Post-Industrial Context;  C.Stephenson & D.Wray Contested Terrain: London's Living Wage Campaign and the Tensions between Community and Union Organizing;  J.Holgate Strategies in Search of Structures: The Real World of Community Unionism in Relation to Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; M.Martínez Lucio & R.Perrett Polish Migrant Workers in the North: New Communities, New Opportunities;  I.Fitzgerald PART III: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF COMMUNITY UNIONISM Beyond Organized Labour in Japan: The Case Study of the Japan Community Union Federation;  P.Stewart & E.I.Urano Immigrant Workers and Labour/Community Organisations in the United States; K.Moody Using their Sword of Justice: The NSW Teachers Federation and its Campaigns for Public Education between 2001 and 2004; A.Tattersall Union Revitalisation and the CAW: Reconnecting Unions with Local Communities;  I.Byford Conclusion;  I.Greenwood & J.McBride Bibliography