عنوان

Union rivalry, workers' resistance and wage settlements in the Guyana sugar industry :

شماره

TLets389722

عنوان اصلي

Union rivalry, workers' resistance and wage settlements in the Guyana sugar industry :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Gopaul, Nanda Kissore

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

1964-1994

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Warwick

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1996

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Warwick

امتياز متن

1996

متن يادداشت

This PhD thesis is a study of the changing social and industrial conditions under which sugar workers in Guyana have worked, and the responses of workers and unions to these changes since 1964. It makes extensive use of original trade union and employer archives, other public and private documentary evidence and interviews with workers and union and state officials. The narrative and analysis focuses on the experience of union rivalry and the impact of state interventions in wage settlements. The sugar industry has several different unions with differing political and ideological positions, and there have been numerous instances of union rivalry and workers' discontent over union representation. Inadequate wage offers have often led to disputes, involving antagonisms between workers and management but also between workers and their union. In practice the majority of wage settlements have resulted from the intervention of a Commission of Inquiry or Arbitration Tribunal. In the late 1970s the state's imposition of wage levels provoked numerous struggles, often of national proportions, and led to legal challenges by workers and one of their unions which resulted in the restoration of collective bargaining. Such developments have had major implications for the national labour movement. The thesis considers each of these facets of worker and union experience, and thus develops an analysis of the relationships between union rivalry, workers' resistance and wage settlements in the context of highly politicised trade unionism. In particular it discusses the implications of trade union affiliation to the major political parties and shows the extent to which political affiliation helped to destroy the collective bargaining process. It argues that while trade unions are involved in political struggles, they ought not to be affiliated to political parties, since this is likely to compromise the independence of the labour movement and weakens the collective bargaining process.

موضوع مستند نشده

HD Industries. Land use. Labor

موضوع مستند نشده

JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gopaul, Nanda Kissore

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Warwick

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y