The War on Unions

The Far Right and Workers in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-6260-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Understanding Work and Employment Relations

Across the Americas and Europe, far right governments have turned trade unions into prime political targets. Over the past decade, they have waged coordinated ‘wars’ on labour – cutting resources, reforming welfare, criminalising protest, weaponising labour laws and delegitimizing unions – in polities shaped by neoliberal restructuring and democratic backsliding.

Drawing on cases from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United States, this book is the first to map the far right's war on unions globally, examining strategies to damage unions as organisations and democratic actors. It asks what remains of labour in an emerging post liberal order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silva, Vicente

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Betriebsverfassung, Personalvertretung, Mitbestimmungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Tarifvertragsrecht, Arbeitskampf- und Schlichtungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. A New Era of Labour Politics? Rethinking State-Union Relationships

2. The Political Economy of the War on Unions: History and Drivers

3. The Welfare War

4. The Cultural War

5. The Repressive War

6. The Economic War

7. The Legal War

Epilogue: The Future of Labour Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Vicente Silva is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. He was previously Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Assistant Professor at University College London.