TY - BOOK T1 - Young Workers and Trade Unions: A Global View Y1 - 2015 A1 - Hodder, Andy A1 - Lefteris Kretsos KW - austerity policies KW - precariousness KW - trade union revitalization KW - trade unions KW - young workers AB -

In most cases young workers all over the world carry out low-paid, low-status and insecure work. As their position in the labour market becomes increasingly precarious, one may expect them to join unions to get more protection. Nevertheless most young workers remain disengaged from trade union activity and trade unions are struggling with the loss of members and an increasing ageing effect. Young Workers and Trade Unions provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people and the views and opinions young people hold relating to collective representation. One of the key strengths of the collection is the selection of specific national cases of high relevance to contemporary debates of precariousness, trade union revitalization strategies and austerity policies.

PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - New York L2 - eng ER -