Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The labour movement in Lebanon PDF full book. Access full book title The labour movement in Lebanon by Lea Bou Khater. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Lea Bou Khater Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526159422 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 173
Book Description
The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the country has largely been a failure, for reasons including state interference, tactical co-optation, and the strategic use of sectarianism by an oligarchic elite, together with the structural weakness of a service-based laissez-faire economy. Drawing on a vast body of Arabic-language primary sources and difficult-to-access archives, the book’s conclusions are significant not only for trade unionism, but also for new forms of workers’ organisations and social movements in Lebanon and beyond. The Lebanese case study presented here holds significant implications for the wider Arab world and for comparative studies of labour. This authoritative history of the labour movement in Lebanon is vital reading for scholars of trade unionism, Lebanese politics, and political economy.
Author: Lea Bou Khater Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526159422 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 173
Book Description
The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the country has largely been a failure, for reasons including state interference, tactical co-optation, and the strategic use of sectarianism by an oligarchic elite, together with the structural weakness of a service-based laissez-faire economy. Drawing on a vast body of Arabic-language primary sources and difficult-to-access archives, the book’s conclusions are significant not only for trade unionism, but also for new forms of workers’ organisations and social movements in Lebanon and beyond. The Lebanese case study presented here holds significant implications for the wider Arab world and for comparative studies of labour. This authoritative history of the labour movement in Lebanon is vital reading for scholars of trade unionism, Lebanese politics, and political economy.
Author: Dima Khalil Sader Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
This study aims at assessing the effectiveness and adaptability of labor movemen t in face of the constraining environments in postwar Lebanon. Labor movement in Lebanon is represented by the General Confederation of Labor known as CGTL (Con federation Generale du Travail au Liban). Since its inception, this organization had its own dysfunctions such as low union density, unrepresentative internal s tructure and periodical internal divisions that accompanied it through different historical periods. Despite these anomalies, the CGTL was able throughout its h istory to preserve certain autonomy from the state and to achieve tangible gains for workers. Yet, this effectiveness was drained gradually in postwar period an d this ironically coincided with the rebuilding and consolidation of the State. Compared with both prewar and war times, the CGTL in postwar period suffered fro m unprecedented problems emanating to a large extent from the practices of the p ostwar political establishment and to a lesser extent from the economic context. This thesis addresses this interaction between the political consisting of the quasi-authoritarian practices of the state which aimed at containing the labor m ovement and the economic consisting of a neo liberal economic project which does not accept labor organizations as partners in development. The thesis also trie s to study the reaction of the CGTL to this constraining environment. For this a im, a historical comparative method will be adopted. A comparative overview of t he changing roles of unions in developed and developing countries will guide our study on the changing roles and effectiveness of labor movement in postwar Leba non compared to war and prewar times.
Author: William E. Forbath Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674037081 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 231
Book Description
Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.
Author: Doctor Sian Lazar Publisher: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN: 1783609915 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice. From the pink tide and Arab spring to Occupy and anti-austerity, the last twenty years have witnessed the birth of a new type of mass mobilisation. Where Are The Unions? compares, for the first time, the challenges faced by movements in Latin America, the Arab world and Europe. Workers’ strikes and protests were a critical part of these events, yet their role has been significantly underestimated in many of the subsequent narratives. This book focuses on the complex interactions between organised workers, the unemployed, self-employed, youth, students and the state, and critically assesses the concept of the ‘precariat’. With contributions from across four continents, this is the most comprehensive look at the global context of mass mobilisation in the twenty-first century.
Author: Lea Bou Khater
Author: Lea Bou Khater
Author: Muhammad Adnan Salah Khayyat
Author: Lea Bou Khater
Author: Thomas A. Pianka
Author: Dima Khalil Sader
Author: 
Author: Dorte Hvidemose
Author: William E. Forbath
Author: Doctor Sian Lazar
Author: Beverly J. Silver