9. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets 13
6. I. STUDIES OF NONWORKER ORGANIZATIONS
7. 2. White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy 47
8. 3. The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What’s Known About Its Impact? 99
9. 4. The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws 141
10. II. STUDIES OF MEMBERSHIP-BASED INITIATIVES
11. 5. Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation 179
12. 6. A Workers’ Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits 207
13. III. NEW UNION OPPORTUNITIES AND INITIATIVES
14. 7. A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the Nonwage Aspects of Work 231
15. 8. Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations 265
16. 9. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers 293
17. Contributors 315
18. Author Index 317
19. Subject Index 321