The Limitations of Ideology in the Early Argentine Labour Movement: Anarchism in the Trade Unions, 1890—1920

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The World ◽  
General Studies

The origins of the labour movement in Argentina, which date from a period when the country was developing rapidly and had an important place in the world economy, have received little close attention from historians. Generally, the years before 1930 have been neglected in favour of the study of developments associated with Perón and Peronism. Such secondary literature as does exist consists largely of personal memoirs, whose authors were, understandably, parti pris. The more general studies tend to underestimate the extent, variety and sophistication of trade unionism before 1930, and also to contrast the style and ideology of the unions with that of the Peronist labour movement. Most notably, Argentina is widely quoted, along with Spain, as one of the countries where anarchist and/or anarcho-syndicalist ideology and practice dominated the labour movement.

Globalisation and the dilemmas of international trade unionism

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Economic Developments

This article presents the author's reflections on the possibilities of a restructuring of the international trade union movement, on the basis of a collective research project to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) which seeks to open a debate within the movement over the lessons to be learned from its history as a guide for its future action. The most important question facing the trade union movement today is what is generally called 'globalisation', a phenomenon that goes back many years, both in terms of economic developments and labour struggles. From this perspective, the paper examines the basis for the existing divisions of the international labour movement, before going over the work of the ICFTU and of the International Trade Secretariats (ITSs) to achieve the regulation of the multinational corporations and of the international economy, and concluding on the prospects for unity of action in the unions' work around the global economy.

Trade Unionism: Differences and Similarities - a Comparative View on Europe, USA and Asia

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Strøby Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Different Parts

The article presents an outline of characteristics regarding trade unions in three different parts of the world, focusing on Europe, USA and Asia. The intention is to describe and discuss differences and similarities between trade unionism in these three parts of the world focusing on some selected countries. The conclusion in this article is that it is possible - on a very abstract and generalizing level - to identify some differences in the social and institutional basis of trade unions in Europe, Asia and the USA.

scholarly journals The depletion of narrative resources in the Kenyan trade union movement.

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-713
Author(s):  
Collins Ogutu Miruka
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Union Leadership ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Depth Interviews

We discuss in this study the problems of mobilization and effectiveness faced by Kenyan trade unions. In a country with high levels of unemployment and weak labour legislation, it is imperative that the labour movement devise ways of remaining relevant and effective. We combine in-depth interviews with a qualitative assessment of secondary documents on trade unions in Kenya. We do this by looking at topics addressed, characterizations of unions as well as major actors such as union leaders, workers, and political leaders. We argue that labour leaders need to enrich their vocabularies of persuasion in order to neutralize the current discourses around trade unionism in Kenya. Such an approach would enable the union leadership to acquire new repertoires of action to enhance their capacity to mobilize.

scholarly journals The Place and Importance of Associations in Strengthening Trade Unions

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
MA. Ali ihsan Çelen
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Power Loss ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Core ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Strategies

Developments in the globalization process play an important role in the power loss of trade unions. This situation reveals the problems of unionization in the current industrial relations system. At this point, associations with aspects similar to the trade unions and important non-governmental organizations (NGOs), have an important place in terms of understanding the position, the importance, and the functions of today's industrial relations system where different ways of solutions are sought for unionism. In this context, this investigation focuses on the role, importance and functions of associations in the protection and reinforcement of the existing forces of the trade unions.The investigation aims to evaluate the position, importance and the potential functions of the associations in development of new strategies for strengthening the trade unions, and to suggest new ideas on this direction. The topic (in the direction of the determined purpose) was evaluated under the titles of ‘change and transformation in trade unionism’, ‘new strategies discussed and developed in the process of strengthening the trade unions’, and ‘the associations in development of new strategies’. According to basic findings, in the process of the re-empowerment of trade unions, associations are emerging as important NGOs in the realization of positive scenarios and taking precautions against negative scenarios. In conclusion; besides unionization, importance should be attached to association in every matter. In this process, associations should function in the independent status, in the dependent status, and in the core status.

scholarly journals The Organizing Model and the Management of Change

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 712-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Carter ◽  
Rae Cooper
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
National Union ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The U.S

Summary Trade unions in nearly all developed countries are facing major difficulties in maintaining membership levels and political influence. The U.S. labour movement has been increasingly attracted to an organizing model of trade unionism and, in turn, this response has caught the imagination of some sections of other Anglo-Saxon movements, most notably in Australia, New Zealand and Britain. Despite similarities in the problems that national union movements face, however, the histories and current experiences of trade unions in the various countries show marked differences. This article, based on extensive fieldwork in Britain and Australia, examines attempts to assess the importance of national contexts in the adoption of the organizing model through a comparative study of an Australian and a British union.

scholarly journals Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1114-1130
Author(s):  
Matteo Rizzo ◽  
Maurizio Atzeni
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The World ◽  
Transport Workers

The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers’ interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee–employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare the processes of collective organization of two groups of precarious workers in the transport and delivery sector of Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam. Through this comparison we investigate how existing trade union structures, industrial relations frameworks, socio-political contexts and labour processes interact with the processes of workers’ organization that take place even in the harsher conditions of informal work, critically engaging with the argument that the growing precariousness of work represents the end of trade unionism as we know it.

scholarly journals Cross-Currents in Australian Trade Unionism

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Les Cupper ◽  
June Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Western World ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Australian Council ◽  
Inflation Rates ◽  
The World ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
Current Union ◽  
General Thrust

In common with trade unions throughout the "western world", Australian unions entering the 1980's have difficult times ahead. Grappling not only with the twin evils of high unemployment and inflation rates, but also with organizational structures ill-suited in many respects to cope with the technological revolution, Australian unions are reacting to the realities of today and attempting to anticipate the events of tomorrow. How effectively they are doing either may be gleaned to a large extent by an examination of their most recent deliberations in their "parliament" -the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in September 1 9 7 9 and surrounding issues and events. This paper seeks to capture the mood and general thrust of current union deliberations in three major areas: ( 1) Organization and Structure; ( 2) Leadership and Ideology; (3) Policy issues. Some of what follows is of peculiarly Australian concern but much of it has wider ramifications highlighting some shared concerns of unionists the world over.

The end of revisionism?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Pierson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism

This chapter argues that the starkest of the institutional problems facing social democracy now is a growing inability to win elections. Added to this was the challenge of a long-term decline in the industrial wing of social democracy. Historically, social democracy has been the politics of the labour movement, and a key component of this movement has always been trade unions and their members. While that relationship was not always as close as it was in the British or Swedish cases, trade unionism was almost always the ‘other half’ of social democracy. However, the 1980s were a time of loss for this ‘other side’ of social democracy. Trade unions were becoming increasingly feminised, more focused in the public sector and drawing in increasing numbers of middle-class public service members.

Trade Unionism in Colonial Africa

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Modern Sense

Along with modern technology and modern forms of commerce, Europe has exported wage labour, trade unions, and collective bargaining to Africa. Before the coming of Europeans, various forms of indentured, communal, and customary labour existed, but there was no class of wage and salaried workers in the modern sense. During the nineteenth century, a wage labour class emerged, to one degree or another, in every part of Africa. As in other industrialising areas, this soon led to an organised labour movement.

scholarly journals Christian Trade Unions and European Integration

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Milieu

Summary Christian trade unions of the countries of « Little Europe » have established organizations to coordinate their European activities and to represent their interests before the agencies concerned with European economic integration. They have been forced to seek allies in order to increase their influence. In this search they have two major alternatives: they can work closely with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, or they can try to increase their influence within the Christian Democratic political milieu. This article describes the supranational structure of the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions and analyses the problems of orientation with which its supranational activities has confronted it. The present article was suggested by a broader study of Christian trade unionism in the world. A grant from the Social Science Research Council enabled the author to visit several European countries during the summer of 1959, and this assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Additional research was accomplished in Europe in the summer of 1961.

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