Unions and migrant workers: strategic challenges in Britain
Unions and migrant workers: strategic challenges in Britain
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工会和移民工人：英国的战略挑战
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2012
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Joanna Karmowska
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P. James;Joanna Karmowska
这篇文章是基于最近的一项研究，试图通过一系列的英国工会访问和接触波兰移民工人在社区或劳动力市场的水平，而不是工作场所的水平。调查结果表明，确实可以在这个层面招聘农民工。然而，有人对以这种方式获得的新成员的可持续性表示怀疑。这些疑虑与明显缺乏明确的工会战略有关，以与被招募者建立长期的利益关系，例如北美“新劳工运动”文献中所倡导的那种。有人认为，这种缺席与其说是缺乏战略领导的反映，不如说是工会在确定与工作场所以上工人的代表和组织有关的可行战略方面遇到困难的产物。
This article is based on a recent study of attempts by a range of British trade unions to access and engage with Polish migrant workers at the community or labour market level, rather than workplace level. The findings suggest that migrant workers can indeed be recruited at this level. Doubts are expressed, however, about the sustainability of new membership gained in this way. These doubts are linked to a marked absence of clear union strategies to create a longer-term nexus of interest with those who are recruited, of the type advocated in, for example, the North American ‘new labor movement’ literature. This absence – it is argued – may be less a reflection of a lack of strategic leadership than a product of the difficulties unions face in identifying viable strategies relating to the representation and organization of workers above the workplace level.