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Discussion of what has been termed 'Community Unionism' (CU) traverses a range of disciplines, including geography, sociology and industrial relations. While the term is being used more extensively, it tends to be loosely deployed and often in such a variety of ways as to generate as much confusion as clarity.

This book draws out the different meanings, including a range of the variations, of the term CU. The case studies presented in this book raise a number of issues important to the process of CU and its potential for success, including the nature of CU; the impact of geography; the sustainability of CU initiatives; the role played by activists in building trust between trade unions, community and faith groups; the potential problems presented to traditional trade unionism in acting beyond the workplace; the diversity of CU initiatives and whether CU offers the prospect of an alternative form of trade unionism.

CONTENTS:

PART I: UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY UNIONISM Introduction; P.Stewart, J.McBride, I.Greenwood, J.Stirling, J.Holgate, A.Tattersall, C.Stephenson & D.Wray PART II: COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY UNIONISM IN THE UK Now that the Work is Done: Community Unionism in a Post-Industrial Context; C.Stephenson & D.Wray Contested Terrain: London’s Living Wage Campaign and the Tensions between Community and Union Organizing; J.Holgate Strategies in Search of Structures: The Real World of Community Unionism in Relation to Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; M.Martínez Lucio & R.Perrett Polish Migrant Workers in the North: New Communities, New Opportunities; I.Fitzgerald PART III: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF COMMUNITY UNIONISM Beyond Organized Labour in Japan: The Case Study of the Japan Community Union Federation; P.Stewart & E.I.Urano Immigrant Workers and Labour/Community Organisations in the United States; K.Moody Using their Sword of Justice: The NSW Teachers Federation and its Campaigns for Public Education between 2001 and 2004; A.Tattersall Union Revitalisation and the CAW: Reconnecting Unions with Local Communities; I.Byford Conclusion; I.Greenwood & J.McBride Bibliography

 

JO MCBRIDE is Lecturer in Industrial Relations and HRM at the University of Bradford, UK. Her research interests include trade unions and social movement unionism, workplace collectivism, shop steward organisation and the dynamics of power and control in the employment relationship.

IAN GREENWOOD is Lecturer in Industrial Relations and HRM at the University of Leeds, UK. His current research interests include workplace skills, team working and industrial relations, community unionism and the impact of restructuring in the steel industry

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