Global Anti-Unionism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Anti-Unionism: Contextual and Thematic Issues

   1. Anti-Unionism: Contextual and Thematic Issues

      • Tony Dundon, Gregor Gall

      Pages 1-17

3. Historical Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Employer Opposition in the US: Anti-Union Campaigning from the 1950s

      • John Logan

      Pages 21-38

   3. From Organised to Disorganised Capital? British Employer Associations, 1897–2010

      • Alan McKinlay

      Pages 39-62

   4. Economists Turn against Unions: Historical Institutionalism to Neo-classical Individualism

      • Gerald Friedman

      Pages 63-80

4. Contemporary Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Anti-Unionism in a Coordinated Market Economy: The Case of Germany

      • Martin Behrens, Heiner Dribbusch

      Pages 83-103

   3. Employers against Unions: The British Experience of Union Victimisation

      • Gregor Gall

      Pages 104-120

   4. Beyond Union Avoidance? Exploring the Dynamics of Double-Breasting Voice Regimes in Ireland

      • Niall Cullinane, Tony Dundon, Eugene Hickland, Tony Dobbins, Jimmy Donaghey

      Pages 121-142

   5. Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the US

      • Kim Moody

      Pages 143-162

   6. The State against Unions: Australia’s Neo-liberalism, 1996–2007

      • Rae Cooper, Bradon Ellem

      Pages 163-183

   7. Colombia: The Most Dangerous Place to be a Union Member

      • Daniel Blackburn, Miguel Puerto

      Pages 184-206

   8. Waves of Anti-Unionism in South Korea

      • Chris Rowley, Kiu Sik Bae

      Pages 207-223

   9. Employer Anti-Unionism in Democratic Indonesia

      • Michele Ford

      Pages 224-243

5. Back Matter

   Pages 244-245

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One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.

• capital
• dynamics
• economy
• employer
• Germany
• success
• unions

• University of Bradford, UK

  Gregor Gall

• National University of Ireland, Ireland

  Tony Dundon

Kiu Sik Bae, Korea Labour Institute in Seoul, South Korea Martin Behrens, Hans Böckler Foundation (WSI), Germany Daniel Blackburn, ICTUR Rae Cooper, University of Sydney Business School, Australia Niall Cullinane, Queen's University Management School, Northern Ireland Tony Dobbins, Bangor University, Wales Jimmy Donaghey, University of Warwick, UK Heiner Dribbusch, Hans Böckler Foundation (WSI), Germany Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney, Australia Michele Ford, University of Sydney, Australia Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts, USA Eugene Hickland, National University of Ireland, Ireland John Logan, San Francisco State University, USA Alan McKinlay, Newcastle University, UK Kim Moody, University of Hertfordshire, UK Miguel Puerto , lawyer Chris Rowley, City University, UK

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