Martin Upchurch: 3 books
New Unions, New Workplaces
Strategies for Union Revival
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview, and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. It presents...
The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe
The Search for Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is a developing crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe; this volume outlines the crisis and examines the emerging alternatives. The authors define 'social democratic trade unionism' and its associated party-union nexus and explain how this traditional model has been threatened...
Workers and revolution in Serbia
From Tito to Milo_evic and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000. The authors argue that Tito and the Communist leadership of Yugoslavia saw self-management as a modernising project to compete...