Wolfgang Platzer Livres

The continuing advance of globalization, together with deepening European integration, has increased the significance of the transnational level of trade union organization and action. This study offers a comprehensive overview of the development, structure, and policies of global and European trade union federations to serve as a reference work on all the key trade union movements operating globally and in Europe. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses. As a handbook, this volume provides extensive and systematically presented data on transnational sectoral trade union federations. Applying an analogous structure in the presentation of both global and European levels, the study features extensive organizational profiles, portraits, and overviews. This empirical material serves to reveal recent innovations in cross-border policy instruments and strategic approaches since the 1990s. The changing profiles of international trade unions – as measured against a set of functional criteria drawn from political science – and key developments in transnational trade union activity since the start of the new century are also investigated.

mit Beiträgen von:Hellwig Valentin, Menyhert Lakatos, Ciril Kosmac, Scipio Slataper, Ludwig Laher, Karoly Mehes, Gerhard Kofler, Pavao Pavlicic, Tone Kuntner, Boris Kuhar, Rolf Schwendter, Leonardo Zanier, Predrag Matvejevic, Živko Skracic, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Renate Lunzer, Veit Heinichen, Gerhard Kofler, Irena Vrkljan, Harald Schwinger, Florjan Lipuš, Slobodan Novak, Jani Virk, Karoly Mehes, Veljko Barbieri, Cornelia Madl, Reinhard P. Gruber, Monika Klein, Petra Herczeg, György Buda, Richard Swartz, Eva Banki, Alois Hergouth, Dragan Velikic, Günther Freitag, Claudio Magris, Csava Bathori, Berta Bojetu, Nelida Milani, Isabella Rameder, Wolfgang Koch, Lajos Nagy, Sabine Gruber, Walther von der Vogelweide, Stanko Andric, Tone Kuntner, Peter Štih u. a.