- Title
- Labour after globalisation: old and new sources of power
- Title
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/1
- Creator
- Webster, Edward
- Subject
- Globalization Labor market Labor and globalization Labor and economy Labor economics Labor supply -- Effect of automation on
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3093
- Identifier
- vital:20368
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780868104867
- Description
- In this paper I focus on building a conceptual framework for an understanding of the changing dynamics of labour and workers’ sources of power. I begin by identifying worker action that draws on traditional sources of structural and associational power. I then show how the emergence of new forms of labour action is drawing on both old and new sources of power. New global forms of worker power are examined, and I conclude by suggesting that the missing dimension in the three sources of power identified – structural, associational and societal – is institutional power. If these new initiatives are to be sustainable they will need to include one of labour’s traditional sources of power, institutional power. These four-fold sources of power provide the basis for a strategy of union renewal in the age of globalisation.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/1, Working Paper Series: Social Policy and Labour
- Rights
- Webster, Edward
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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