TY - BOOK AU - Fairbrother, Peter AU - Levesque, Christian AU - Hennebert, Marc-Antonin TI - Transnational Trade Unionism : Building Union Power SN - 9780415818803 (hbk.) : U1 - 331.88 FAI PY - 2013/// CY - Abingdon PB - Taylor and Francis KW - Labor unions - History KW - Labor unions and international relations - History KW - Management and Business Studies N1 -

Formerly CIP. Uk Includes bibliographical references and index.

; List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Understanding transnational trade unionism / Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Levesque -- Workplace trade unions : bridging the local to the global -- Workers' power : fighting sweatshop practices at Russell athletic in Honduras / Mark Anner -- Building north-south transnational trade union alliances : prospects and challenges / Melanie Dufour-Poirier et Christian Levesque -- Trade unions strategies in cross-border actions : articulating institutional specificity with local power dynamics / Christian Levesque, Gregor Murray, Chrsitian Dufour and Adelheid Hege -- The fragilities of east-west union co-operation : a strike at Renault-Dacia / Michele Descolonges -- National trade unions : shaping new forms of solidarity -- Building transnational unionism : Australian transport maritime unions in the world / Peter Fairbrother -- Creating spaces for labour internationalism : national industrial unions in the southern hemisphere and their strategies / Armel Brice Adanhounme and Christian Levesque -- Local actors and transnational structures : explaining trends in multinational company-level negotiations in Europe / Valeria Pulignano, Volker Telljohaan, Isabel Da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt -- European trade unions and the long march through the institutions : from integration to contention? / Richard Hyman -- International trade unionism : crafting institutions for the 21st century -- The international labour movement : structures and dynamics / Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick -- Transnational solidarity around global production networks : reflections on the strategy of international framework agreements / Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen and Katharina Schiederig -- Opening the black box of cross-border union alliances : a case study / Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Reynald Bourque -- Labour standards in segmented markets : the construction industry in Delhi and Moscow / Nikolaus Hammer -- Conclusion -- Futures of transnational unionism / Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Levesque -- List of contributors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -