Asian Industrialism, Labour Movements and Cultural Nationalism: Interwar contexts of German trade-union writings on “Working India”

2020 ◽  
pp. 246-272
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
German Trade

Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110358
Author(s):  
Simon Ress ◽  
Florian Spohr
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
German Trade ◽  
The Impact

This contribution scrutinises how introducing a statutory minimum wage of EUR 8.50 per hour, in January 2015, impacted German employees’ decision with regard to union membership. Based on representative data from the Labour Market and Social Security panel, the study applies a logistic difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach on entries into and withdrawals from unions in the German Trade Union Confederation (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB). The results show no separate effect on withdrawals from or entries into unions after the minimum wage introduction for those employees who benefited financially from it, but a significant increase of entries overall. Thus, unions’ campaign for a minimum wage strengthened their position in total but did not reverse the segmentation of union membership patterns.

The “New Economy”

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Klaus Dörre ◽  
Birgit Beese ◽  
Bernd Röttger
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
New Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Regional Networks ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
German Trade ◽  
The One

The article discusses industrial political activities conducted in regional networks by German trade unions. Referring to the example of Dortmund it is shown that the industrial political strategies of local trade union sections are currently at a watershed. On the one hand, trade unions prove capable of socially compensating for the consequences of a radical structural change. On the other hand, however, they have great difficulties in gaining a foothold in the newly emerging economic sectors. ‘Action research’ will help the trade unions to develop adequate strategies for the new economic sectors.

scholarly journals Gewerkschaften in der »Globalisierungsfalle«?

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (106) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Money Markets ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
German Trade ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
Basic Proposition ◽  
New Framework

The article focusses on the process of »globalization« as fiction and reality in order to outline both: the threats to the cooperative institutional concept of the so-called »rhenish capitalism« and the necessity of renewed trade union politics and policies within national and European labour markets. The basic proposition made is that the process of »disembedding«, which characterizes the globalization process, has to be answered by strategies of re-embedding labour and money markets by building up new fonns of regulation regimes. Taking the example of Gennany and the German trade unions, the author argues that trade unions are not only victims of the »globalization trap«, but also actors in a new framework of economic and social challenges - if they accept to be so. They have to build up new forrns of solidarity beyond trade boundaries and to push forward to socially and ecologically regulated processes ofproduction (»re-regulation«) by resisting the polilics of deregulation and by influencing the economic restructuring process.

German Trade Unions, Their History, and the Use of Memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Stefan Berger
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
German Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
German Trade ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Future

This article summarizes the results of the work of a commission of the German Trade Union Confederation, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), on the memory cultures of social democracy and trade unionism in Germany and highlights its recommendations on how to strengthen the public memory of the achievements of trade unionism in German society. It argues that the contemporary memory cultures are highly deficient and in need of a major boost in order to make trade unionism fit for the struggles of the twenty-first century. Memory will be a crucial resource for trade unions, as it gives them a “practical past” with which to operate in the presence with a view to strengthening and protecting workers’ rights in the future.

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