The Prerequisites for Successful Worker Takeovers and Their Implications for Organised Labour

Dr. David O&#039;Connell

doi:10.5771/9783957104427

Summary

This book evaluates the effects of trade worker takeovers (WTOs)—the recuperation of workplaces by workers—on trade union power resources. Deploying a mixed methodological framework to identify the prerequisites for successful labour-strengthening WTOs and using an adaptation of the power resources approach as a theoretical framework, it critically evaluates the experiences of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the United Kingdom, the United Food and Commercial Workers Unions (UFCW) in the United States and the Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC (SMABC) in Brazil. It finds that, under certain circumstances, WTOs can strengthen the overall power resources of trade unions and identifies the prerequisites for success in that respect.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98542-066-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95710-442-7
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Labor and Globalization
Volume: 28
Language: English
Pages: 338
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access
1. 1.0.1. Decline for Trade Unionism, Growth of Employee Ownership No access
2. 1.0.2. The Research Gap and Significance of the Work No access
1. 2.1. Methodology No access
2. 2.2. Case Selection No access
3. 2.3. Defining Successful and Unsuccessful Cases No access
4. 2.4. Data Collection and Analysis No access
1. 3.0.1. The Typology of Employee Ownership No access
2. 3.0.2. Defining the Recovery and Conversion Process No access
3. 3.0.3. The Power Resources Approach No access
4. 3.0.4. Ownership Power: a PRA adapted to WTOs No access
5. 3.0.5. The Development of a Counter-Hegemony No access
1. 4.0.0.1. Outgrowth of the Enlightenment No access
2. 4.0.0.2. Marxists and Anarchists No access
3. 1. 4.0.1. Worker Takeovers and Labour Revitalisation Studies No access
4. 4.0.1.1. Worker-Owned Firms Do Not Improve Working Conditions No access
5. 4.0.1.2. WTOs and EOFs Are A Diversion From Core Trade Union Work No access
6. 1. 4.0.2. Is the Overall Argument For or Against? No access
1. 5.1. Introduction No access
2. 5.2. Early Cooperative Strategy and the Legacy of Failure No access
3. 5.3. The Move Toward Nationalisation and the Formation of the NUM No access
4. 5.4. Defeat and a Turn to Locally ‘Pragmatic’ WTOs No access
5. 5.5. Monktonhall Colliery - 1989 - 1997 No access
6. 5.6. Thurcroft Colliery - 1992 No access
7. 5.7. Tower Colliery - 1995 -2008 and 2012-2014 No access
8. 5.8. Hatfield Colliery 1993–2016 No access
9. 5.9. Betws Colliery - 1994 No access
10. 5.10. Kellingley Colliery - 2014 No access
11. 1. 5.11.0.1. In Overview No access
  2. 5.11.0.2. Prerequisites for a Successful WTO in the UK Coal Industry No access
  3. 5.11.0.3. Ownership Power in the UK Mining Industry No access
1. 6.1. Introduction No access
2. 6.2. The Context of Employee Ownership in the Modern United States No access
3. 6.3. The United Steelworkers of America (USW or USWA) No access
4. 6.4. The UFCW and Employee Ownership No access
5. 6.5. Transformative Approaches in the UFCW No access
6. 1. 6.6.1. Additional Forms of Power—the After-Effect of O&O. No access
7. 6.7. Rosauers Supermarket, 1990-2000 No access
8. 6.8. Homeland Acquisition Corporation Inc (HAC Inc), 2011-present No access
9. 6.9. Apple Street Market Cooperative, 2013-2021 No access
10. 1. 6.10.0.1. In Overview No access
  2. 6.10.0.2. Prerequisites for Successful WTOs in the US Retail Industry No access
  3. 6.10.0.3. Ownership Power in the US Retail Industry No access
1. 1. 7.1.1. Background and Context—Why Is Brazil Different? No access
  2. 7.1.2. Employee Ownership in Brazil No access
  3. 7.1.3. Overview of the SMABC Approach to Recuperation No access
  4. 7.2. The Role of ADS-CUT and UNISOL No access
2. 1. 7.3.0.1. The Utilisation of Disruptive Power No access
  2. 7.3.0.2. What About Failed Cases? No access
3. 7.4. UNIFORJA No access
4. 7.5. The State-Union Nexus - Positive or Negative? No access
5. 1. 7.6.0.1. In Overview No access
  2. 7.6.0.2. Prerequisites for a Successful WTOs in the Brazilian Metals Sector No access
  3. 7.6.0.3. Ownership Power in the Brazilian Metals Sector No access
1. 1. 1. 8.1.1. Associational Power No access
2. 8.1.1.1. National Union Policy Frameworks No access
3. 8.1.1.2. Resources and Expertise No access
4. 8.1.1.3. Local Union Motivation No access
5. 1. 8.1.2. Structural Power No access
6. 1. 8.1.3. Institutional Power No access
7. 8.1.3.1. Basic Legal Frameworks No access
8. 8.1.3.2. Financing the Takeover No access
9. 1. 8.1.4. Societal Power No access
10. 8.1.4.1. Coalitional Power No access
11. 1. 8.2. Is Ownership Power Actually ‘Union Strengthening’? No access
12. 8.2.0.1. The Use of Ownership Power No access
13. 8.2.0.2. Associational Ownership Power No access
14. 8.2.0.3. Structural Ownership Power No access
15. 8.2.0.4. Institutional Ownership Power No access
16. 1. 8.2.1. Embedded Approaches, Discursive Power and Hegemony No access
17. 8.2.1.1. The Development of a Counter-Hegemony No access
9. Chapter Nine: Conclusions No access
10. Limitations of Analysis and Space for Further Research No access
11. Implications for Labour Strategy No access
12. Bibliography No access
1. 13.1. Appendix A. Interviews Conducted for Research No access
2. 13.2. Appendix B. Thurcroft Colliery Ltd. support request No access
3. 13.3. Appendix C. Thurcroft Colliery Ltd. community support outreach No access
4. 13.4. Appendix D. Active ongoing WTO attempts in Brazil No access
5. 13.5. Appendix E. All UNISOL associated WTOs in Brazil and their active status No access