Organizing matters: Two logics of trade union representation.
Guy Mundlak, ILERAS-OIT, Ed. E.Elgar, 2020 (Disponible en inglés)
“This book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities in an extensive qualitative
case study of trade union organizing and recruitment.
Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective
action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the
union to represent their interests and, on the other, social bargaining in which the trade union
constructs labour’s interests from the top down.
The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities in an extensive qualitative case
study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the
Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and
develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining
membership.
“Mundlak’s comprehensive, incisive and pathbreaking book comes at a critical time for the labor
movement and for labor scholars. A highly welcome contribution.” ‒Benjamin I. Sachs, Harvard Law
School, USA. Co-published with ILERA and Edward Elgar Publishing as part of the ILERA Publication Series.”