Public-sector workers: the new vanguard?

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This article discusses the shift in union members to a more white-collar, highly educated and female composition made up of employees from the public-sector who work in bureaucratic environments and are sheltered from market-forces; a comparison between private- and public-sector union memberships among industrialized countries internationally is given, all of which had a larger proportion of public-sector members over private-sector members. Manual labor is a little more than a quarter of the work-force, while services orientated employment has increase; this may be a cause for the decline of the manufacturing industry's hegemony over labor relations and the rise in public-sector union memberships.

World, Public employees, Government employees, Public sector, Public sector labor relations

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How the Internet is changing unions

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This article discusses the transformative power of communications technology by looking at how the Internet is used by trade unions to mobilize their members and build cross-border solidarity among workers. The author asserts that the Internet leads to internationalism in trade unions; it democratizes and decentralizes unions making them more transparent and less bureaucratic; and the Internet also helps unions organize and reach new people.

Social aspects, Methods, Internet, International relations, Communication, Communications

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The Avondale Shipyard workers union drive: an anatomy of labor organizing in the South

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This article evaluates the union organizing drive of workers at the Litton Avondale Industries Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1990s, against a hostile, anti-union environment and without any labor laws to protect the workers' rights to unionize. Issues concern the organizing campaign that involved community, political and religious outreach programs in support of the workers, revealing the necessity of collective action.

Louisiana, Analysis, Interpretation and construction, Labor law, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Industrial organization, Workers, Litton Avondale Industries

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