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International Labor Revitalization: Enlarging the Playing Field
Author(s) -
Wever Kirsten S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00093
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , field (mathematics) , socioeconomic status , economics , social institution , level playing field , economic system , political science , labour economics , sociology , microeconomics , social science , population , demography , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , pure mathematics
This survey of international union strategies distinguishes between approaches that add microeconomic value, adjust institutional frameworks, and enlarge the “playing field” on which unions organize and represent worker interests. It considers unions' efforts across advanced capitalist economies to use the latter approach to solve public goods problems while organizing new members. This strategy is limited by difficulties of coordinating multiple social interests but holds revitalizing potential by adding social value in times of socioeconomic instability.