Metal Workers' Greetings to the FifTeenth Congress of Trade Unions

Metallurgist ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Metal Workers

Voluntarism, Corporatism and Path Dependency: The Metalworkers’ Unions Amalgamated Engineering Union and IG Metall and their Place in the History of British and German Industrial Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-344
Author(s):  
Ralf Hoffrogge
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Linear Evolution ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Liberal Market Economy

Abstract Germany and Britain have served as models of either corporatist or voluntarist industrial relations. The more recent typology of ‘varieties of capitalism’ then identified Britain as a model case of a ‘liberal market economy’ while Germany was portrayed as a (state) ‘co-ordinated market economy’. The mainstream of German-language labour history also tells this success story. Some research on the evolution of co-determination has portrayed its subject as a long-standing trait of German capitalism, with predecessors dating back as far as 1848. With its focus on the history of two key trade unions in core industries of Britain and Germany, the British metalworkers’ union the Amalgamated Society of Engineers / Amalgamated Engineering Union and the German Metal Workers’ Union / IG Metall, this article questions both exceptionalism and continuity. It argues that a path dependency exists in the structure of both unions and the industrial relations around them—but that this never came close to a linear evolution of voluntarism or corporatism. On closer examination, the history of both unions includes localist as well as centralist practices. From the 1890s both unions were part of collective bargaining with strong employers’ associations; especially after 1945 both were open to corporatist compromises. For West Germany only, such a compromise was found in the early 1950s, and not before, while in Britain that same compromise was attempted but failed during the crucial years between 1965 and 1979. Therefore, to quote Stefan Berger, this article argues that ‘similarities between the British and the German labour movements have been underestimated’.

Public History and Militant Identities: Brazilian Unions and the Quest for Memory

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Marco Aurélio Santana ◽  
Ricardo Medeiros Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public History ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
Oil Workers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Oil Company

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to analyze how Brazilian trade unions are using social memory as a tool to build up workers' collective identities, in an attempt to fight the fragmentation resulting from the impact of the industrial restructuring of the 1990s. We will draw upon two ongoing programs conducted by the ABC Metal Workers Union (SMABC) and the Oil Workers Union of Brazil's state oil company Petrobras (Sindipetro). The SMABC and Sindipetro have recently been addressing the issue of workers memory with social and public projects. These projects are building up memories, which in spite of being institution-based are also collective, framed by the unions through the use of new types of communication and electronic media.

Jewish Responses to Fascism and Antisemitism in Edinburgh, 1933–1945

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gilfillan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Significant Aspect ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Diverse Origin

Despite the weaknesses of domestic fascist movements, in the context of the rise of Nazi Germany and the presence of antisemitic propaganda of diverse origin Edinburgh's Jewish leaders took the threat seriously. Their response to the fascist threat was influenced by the fact that Edinburgh's Jewish community was a small, integrated, and middle-class population, without links to leftist groups or trade unions. The Edinburgh community closely followed the approach of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in relation to the development of fascism in Britain, the most significant aspect of which was a counter-propaganda initiative. Another important aspect of the response in Edinburgh was the deliberate cultivation of closer ties to the Christian churches and other elite spheres of Scottish society. Despite some unique elements, none of the responses of Edinburgh Jewry, or indeed the Board of Deputies, were particularly novel, and all borrowed heavily from established traditions of post-emancipation Jewish defensive strategies.

Politics and Trade Unions in India

1958 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Ralph James
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions

Gaza's Trade Unions

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-197
Author(s):  
Paul Cossali
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions
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