TY - BOOK AU - Akira Suzuki PY - 2012 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1662-7784 SN - 9783035303513 TI - Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism T2 - Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States DO - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0351-3 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052556 N2 - For the past two decades efforts to halt the decline in union numbers and revitalize the labour movement have largely resided in social movement unionism (SMU). In the first English-language book to compare SMU in Japan, Korea and the United States, scholars from the three countries examine its emergence as a response to neoliberal globalization. Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism moves beyond previous studies of SMU and union revitalization which have focussed on the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. The eleven chapters offer empirical and theoretical analyses of the impact of SMU on existing labour movements, and explain the mediating factors that account for the diversity of SMU across national boundaries, arguing that its forms and activities are mediated by different institutional, political and economic contexts. KW - impact, contexts, globalization LA - English ER -