Trade Unions and Migrant Workers

Edited by Stefania Marino, Work and Equalities Institute, The University of Manchester, UK, Judith Roosblad, Inspectorate of Social Affairs and Employment and Rinus Penninx, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents:Foreword by Done-One KimForeword by Moussa Oumarou and Manuela Tomei1. Introduction: How to study trade union action towards immigration and migrant workers?Stefania Marino, Rinus Penninx and Judith RoosbladPart I Changing contextual conditions for trade union action2. Economic and labour market change and policies: Before and beyond austerity in Europe Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings3. Migration and its regulation in an integrating EuropeRinus Penninx4. Migrants in the public discourse: Between media, policy and public opinion Alberta Giorgi and Tommaso Vitale 5. Trade unions in Europe: Challenges and responses Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman and Magdalena Bernaciak Part IITrade union attitudes and actions relating to immigration and migrant workers in 11 European countries6. Trade unions and migration in Austria, 1993-2015 August Gächter 7. France: The assimilationist model called into questionSylvie Contrepois8. Trade unions and migrant workers in Germany: Unions between national and transnational labour market segmentation Ines Wagner9. The Netherlands: Finding common ground in an increasingly fragmented workforceJudith Roosblad and Lisa Berntsen10. Sweden: A model in dissolution? Anders Neergaard and Charles Woolfson11. Trade unions and migrant workers in the UK: Organising in a cold climate Heather Connolly and Ben Sellers 12. Trade unions and migrant workers in Ireland: New organisational opportunities under changed circumstancesMary Hyland 13. Trade unions and migrant workers in Italy: Between labour and social rights Matteo Rinaldini and Stefania Marino14. Trade unions and immigration in Spain: The politics and framing of social inclusion within industrial relations Miguel Martínez Lucio 15. Trade unions and migration in the Czech Republic, 2004-15Marek Čanek16. Trade unions and migrant workers in Poland: First stage of a work in progressJulia KubisaPart III Analysis and conclusions 17. Comparing trade union attitudes and actions relating to immigration and migrant workers in 11 European countriesStefania Marino, Judith Roosblad and Rinus PenninxIndex

'This work provides a relevant comparative and detailed description of how the early slogan ''Proletarians of all countries, unite!'' (Karl Marx, 1848) has been put into practice in Europe in the 21st century. This presented a huge challenge for the (re)construction of worker solidarity and the organized defence of social rights. This book sheds important light on how further European social construction could progress.' --Albert Martens, KU Leuven, Belgium'The labour market integration of migrant workers and of workers with a migration background is an increasingly sensitive puzzle for employment services, employers, and especially politicians across Europe. In this puzzle, trade unions have an enormous role, which is too often neglected and which varies across countries, issues and time. This book by an impressive team of experts provides a long needed systematic and sympathetic analysis and will be the central reference for both research and policy debates for years to come.'--Guglielmo Meardi, University of Warwick, UK'In recent years, immigration has posed major political and economic challenges for western societies. Whether and how to integrate or restrict immigrant workers is a burning question for politicians and activists across the spectrum. Of particular importance are the attitudes of trade unions, organizations well situated either to exclude or to craft strategies of inclusion. In this fine book, experienced researchers offer a comprehensive study of contrasting union approaches across eleven European countries. Findings are informative, surprising, and couldn't be more timely.'--Lowell Turner, Cornell University, US