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Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation, Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martínez Lucio compare trade union responses to immigration and the related political and labour market developments in the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The labor movement is facing significant challenges as a result of such changes in the modern context. As such, the authors closely examine the idea of social inclusion and how trade unions are coping with and adapting to the need to support immigrant workers and develop various types of engagement and solidarity strategies in the European context.
Traversing the dramatically shifting immigration patterns since the 1970s, during which emerged a major crisis of capitalism, the labor market, and society, and the contingent rise of anti-immigration sentiment and new forms of xenophobia, the authors assess and map how trade unions have to varying degrees understood and framed these issues and immigrant
Trade Review
The book can be useful to both academics and policy makers. While analysing an extensive amount of data, the book remains clear, wellwritten and nicely structured with a framework that facilitates the comparisons it makes.
* British Journal of Industrial Labor Relations *
The book is clearly of interest to an academic audience–students and researchers. This book really brings what might be possible into sharp focus.
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Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Hyman
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. Understanding and Framing the Questions of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and Social Inclusion
2. Uncovering the Nature and Tensions of Inclusion and Labor Relations: Research Context and Methods
3. Trade Unions and Immigration in the Netherlands: Between Race and Social Rights
4. Trade Unions and Immigration in Spain: From Class to Social Renewal?
5. Trade Unions and Immigration in the UK: Equality and Immigrant Worker Engagement without Collective Rights
6. Trade Union Responses to Immigration in Europe: Policy, Politics, and the Crafting of Social Inclusion across Borders
7. The Geometry of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and the Politics of Inclusion: The Challenge of Solidarity
Notes
References
Index
