Shaping Global Industrial Relations: The Impact of International Framework Agreements (Advances in Labour Studies)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Tables, Figures and Boxes......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Contributors......Page 17
List of Abbreviations......Page 20
Introduction and Overview......Page 22
Origins and underlying expectations......Page 24
Prevalence of IFAs......Page 26
Overview of chapters......Page 28
Overall messages......Page 32
Concluding remarks: thoughts on a future research and policy agenda......Page 34
Part I: Cross-border Social Dialogue and Agreements: Processes and Outcomes......Page 40
Introduction......Page 42
Methodological aspects......Page 44
Impact on respect for core labour standards: making trade union rights more effective......Page 47
Impact on labour–management relations in multinationals: social dialogue as a goal......Page 50
TCAs\' impact on industrial relations: a framework for collective bargaining with multinationals?......Page 53
Conclusions......Page 56
2 A Qualitative Analysis of International Framework Agreements: Implementation and Impact......Page 59
Implementation......Page 60
Scope of application......Page 63
Implementation and impact: selected company cases......Page 65
Tentative impact assessment......Page 75
Introduction......Page 82
Literature review of company motivations and expectations......Page 83
Case studies from the Russian Federation, South Africa and Japan......Page 89
Conclusions......Page 96
Part II: Implementing International Framework Agreements on the Ground: Case Studies......Page 104
Introduction......Page 106
Business restructuring and global production networks......Page 108
The limits of corporate social responsibility......Page 109
Implementing global social dialogue in global production networks: IFAs......Page 110
Extending social dialogue beyond Europe: the challenges of implementing IFAs in Brazil and the United States......Page 111
Brazilian IFA cases: local diversity – recognized frameworks......Page 114
Implementing international framework agreements in the United States: a futile exercise for unions?......Page 121
Conclusions: \'Are we still in Kansas?\'......Page 131
Introduction......Page 137
The Daimler IFA in context......Page 140
The formulation of the Daimler IFA: negotiations and content......Page 144
Implementation of the Daimler IFA: application and compliance......Page 148
Implementation of the Daimler IFA: enforcement and evaluation......Page 154
The trees and the forest: from good practices to global social dialogue......Page 157
Introduction......Page 164
Transnational collective bargaining: definition and developments......Page 166
Transnational company restructuring agreements......Page 171
Transnational restructuring agreements in the automobile sector......Page 176
Conclusions: the necessary transnational coordination during restructuring......Page 183
Introduction......Page 185
International framework agreements......Page 187
A global banana supply chain......Page 189
An IFA: on the ground......Page 191
Conclusions......Page 197
Introduction......Page 200
The origins of the GFA......Page 201
The GFA and issues in implementation......Page 205
The Inditex GFA and transformative CSR......Page 210
Conclusions......Page 214
Part III: Complementary Initiatives......Page 220
Introduction......Page 222
Using the IFA in Hochtief: global negotiation, local organizing?......Page 224
International union networks in MNEs......Page 227
International union mergers and alliances......Page 233
Discussion and conclusions......Page 238
Better Factories Cambodia and the Better Work Programme......Page 241
Data......Page 243
Industrial relations measures in Better Factories Cambodia......Page 244
Discussion......Page 260
Conclusions......Page 262
Appendix: Overview of Provisions in International Framework Agreements......Page 264
Bibliography......Page 291
Index......Page 316