Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States 1st edition Akira Suzuki (editor) by Akira Suzuki (editor) 9783034308687, 303430868X instant download after payment.

Labour movements in advanced industrialized countries have suf fered
a decline in membership and density and a weakened presence in their
respective societies. The decline of organized labour is particularly pro-
nounced in Liberal Market Economy countries (LMEs) where institutional
arrangements regulating industrial relations and government social policies
have weakly mediated the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour
movements. Trade unions have continued losing members as they fail to
keep up with the increasing speed of capital mobility when, for instance,
companies in manufacturing industries, unions’ traditional base, relo-
cate plants overseas. Unions have suf fered further loss of members from
subcontracting/out-sourcing of business activities in domestic-oriented
industries and the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises. Moreover,
neoliberal states have created hostile environments for labour movements,
for example, by deregulating labour markets and reforming industrial rela-
tions institutions in order to undermine the position of trade unions as
legitimate representatives of workers’ collective interests.