Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe

Taylor, Graham W.; Mathers, Andrew

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“…Trade unions have been described from a philosophical point of view as part of the "ideological state apparatus" (Althusser, 1977), from an economic point of view as "third sector" organisations (Adaman and Yahya, 2002;Chasse 1995;Valentinov, 2008), from a political perspective as one of the three "social partners" (with governments and business) (Taylor and Mathers, 2002;Pochet, 2002;Ferner and Hyman, 1998) or as social movements (Gajewska, 2008). In our view, unions can embody any or all of the functions implied in such definitions, depending upon time and place.…”

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Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Räthzel

Uzzell

2011

Global Environmental Change

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Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

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Uzzell

2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…It has been suggested that unions have been less likely to resort to SMU, as they have been able to rely on state support within relatively closed institutional settings (Baccaro et al, 2003;Heery, 2005). This has promoted the development of social partner as the dominant union identity and social partnership as the dominant union practice (Taylor and Mathers, 2002).…”

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Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?

Upchurch

Mathers

2011

Critical Sociology

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“…With the FTOs 'mediators' role between capital and labour dependent on the development of 'trust' between employers, government and individual union leaders, it is necessarily sometimes bought at the expense of workers' interests, with union membership wage militancy, for example, suppressed in the 'national interest' and expressed in terms of social contracts or pacts (Taylor and Mathers, 2002;Hassel, 2003).…”

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A reappraisal of the rank-and-file versus bureaucracy debate

Darlington

Upchurch

2012

Capital & Class

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Against the backcloth of an upsurge in industrial militancy in Western economies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Hyman crafted an unsurpassed Marxist analysis of the political economy of industrial relations. He drew attention to the way in which a hierarchy of specialist trade union representatives (notably full-time officials) had acquired interests and perspectives which tended to channel union policies towards accommodation with employers and governments. Officials acted cautiously, with concern for continuity and stability rather than take risks as leaders of mass activity and struggle (Hyman, 1975a: 74). In common with other Marxistinformed writers on trade unionism

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Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe

Cited by 17 publications

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Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?

A reappraisal of the rank-and-file versus bureaucracy debate

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