Trade Unions on YouTube, Jenny Jansson; Katrin Uba
Автор: Patricia Dias da Silva Название: The Politics of YouTube: Selling Empowerment and Amusement ISBN: 1138628158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138628151 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Цена: 96970.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
YouTube has undergone significant changes since its beta launch in 2005, existing today as a profit-seeking business venture that endeavours to combine politics, entertainment, and profitability. This book examines the consequences of a focus on maximizing audiences and attaining revenue for the role of YouTube videos aimed at the promotion of political discussion and citizen engagement. Drawing on extensive analysis of YouTube content and affordances, the author challenges the idea that the use of YouTube for political discussion has levelled access to the public sphere, contending that the professionalization of campaigning and political action on YouTube brings making political videos closer to the realm of political marketing. Given the extent to which blocking and take-down practices by governmental order have affected the company's image as a partner of activism and a supporter of free expression, The Politics of YouTube explores whether there is room for further political empowerment of users and greater scope for YouTube to contribute to enhanced forms of democracy. A rigorous exploration of questions of sociality, surveillance and sousveillance, copyright, humor and political engagement in the digital sphere, this book will appeal to social scientists with interests in science and technology studies, media and communication, politics and the public sphere.
Автор: Appelbaum Richard, Lichtenstein Nelson Название: Achieving Workers` Rights in the Global Economy ISBN: 1501700030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501700033 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 108680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.
Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains—such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads—generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform.
Автор: Curtin, Jennifer Название: Women and Trade Unions ISBN: 1138370525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138370524 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 112290.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: First published in 1999, this volume aims to examine the extent to which such a partnership has been developed between women workers and trade unions, with a comparative emphasis.
Автор: Heiko Pleines, Christin Landgraf Название: Interest Representation & Europeanization of Trade Unions from EU Member States of the Eastern Enlargement ISBN: 3838207343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783838207346 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 79940.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book examines the integration of major trade unions from the six biggest countries of EUs Eastern enlargement into EU governance structures. Based on extensive empirical research, including more than 150 in-depth interviews, statistical data collection, document research, and eight detailed case studies, the contributions describe the activities and perceptions of the trade unions under investigation and the different levels of engagement, including European umbrella organizations, interregional cooperation, and European Works Councils. The book thus contributes to political science research on interest representation and Europeanization as well as sociological research on labor relations.
From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
Название: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics ISBN: 1138607983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138607989 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain.
The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the Fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade. Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing high-quality cost-effective care to miners and their families. She also explains the irony of its dismantlement at the very moment when its innovations gained currency among mainstream commercial plans.
Автор: Hampton Название: Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity ISBN: 1138283630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138283633 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers' climate action.
This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.
Автор: G. Adler; E. Webster Название: Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-97 ISBN: 0333747739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333747735 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 125770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The writings in this volume see the South African labour movement as an actor capable of shaping democratization. Through the strategic use of power, labour has reconfigured democratization through negotiated compromises, attempting to ensure that the costs of adjustment are not borne by workers alone.
Автор: John McIlroy, Nina Fishman, Alan Campbell Название: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 ISBN: 1138607908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138607903 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 132710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979.
Автор: Appelbaum, Richard, Lichtenstein, Nelson Название: Achieving Workers` Rights in the Global Economy ISBN: 1501700049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501700040 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 19190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.
Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains—such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads—generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform.
From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
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