Logics of Resistance Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia Transnational Business and Corporate Culture Series

This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy. Some business writers have suggested that globalization will compel unions to cooperate with managers as workers are more exposed to international competition. By analyzing the actual record of two unions in the highly internationalized telecommunications industry, however, a different picture emerges.

Chapter One Introduction: Globalization and Labor's Search for Alternatives; Chapter Two Globalization in the Telecommunications Industry; Chapter Three Unions and the Globalization Challenge; Chapter Four History and Choice in Telecommunications Unionism; Chapter Five Union Politics and Technological Change; Chapter Six Work Organization and Union Response; Chapter Seven Telecommunications Unions and the State; Chapter Eight The Globalization Dilemma; Chapter Nine Conclusion: The Future of Unionism in an Age of Globalization;

Steve Dubb