Power, politics and the Turkish labour union elite

Sources of Labour Union Power

It is beyond contention that the power of organised labour in Britain has witnessed a marked fall in the last thirty years. Attempts to rebuild that powerbase in a world of neo-liberal globalisation and the ascendancy of employer power means that it is time to go back to basics to try to understand the theoretical sources of labour union power. Using a simple three-fold schema developed by Eric...

Union Bargaining Power, Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment

This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment in the presence of labour unions. An oligopoly model is developed in which identical firms locate in a host country in order to export to a foreign country. These firms are unionised and compete with foreign firms on the foreign market. We consider the incentives for social dumping via restrictive labour legislation which we assume can be used by th...

The Politics of Researching Global Health Politics; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

In this comment, I build on Shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. I highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that Shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...

Globalisation and Labour Markets Research Paper 2004 / 19 Union Bargaining Power , Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment

This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment in the presence of labour unions. An oligopoly model is developed in which identical firms locate in a host country in order to export to a foreign country. These firms are unionised and compete with foreign firms on the foreign market. We consider the incentives for social dumping via restrictive labour legislation which we assume can be used by th...

Power Politics and the Powerless