TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hans-Wolfgang Platzer
AU  - Torsten Müller
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-7784
SN  - 9783035301854
TI  - Global and European Trade Union Federations
T2  - A Handbook and Analysis of Transnational Trade Union Organizations and Policies- Translated by Pete Burgess
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0185-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052451
N2  - The continuing advance of globalization, together with deepening European integration, has increased the significance of the transnational level of trade union organization and action. This study offers a comprehensive overview of the development, structure, and policies of global and European trade union federations to serve as a reference work on all the key trade union movements operating globally and in Europe. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses.  As a handbook, this volume provides extensive and systematically presented data on transnational sectoral trade union federations. Applying an analogous structure in the presentation of both global and European levels, the study features extensive organizational profiles, portraits, and overviews. This empirical material serves to reveal recent innovations in cross-border policy instruments and strategic approaches since the 1990s. The changing profiles of international trade unions – as measured against a set of functional criteria drawn from political science – and key developments in transnational trade union activity since the start of the new century are also investigated.
KW  - development, structure, and policies of global and European trade union federations, transnational level of trade union organization and action, transnational trade union activity, European Works Councils, globalisation, together with deepening Euro
LA  - English
ER  -