Power, Place And Scale: Union Recognition In The Pilbara, 1999–2002

Ellem, Bradon; Ryan, Shaun; Knowles, Harry

doi:10.1080/10301763.2002.10669262

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“…The Phang Nga Tourism Association (samakhom kanthongthieo changwat Phang Nga) and the Khao Lak SME Group were instrumental in petitioning the central government for more funding to hasten the rebuilding process, influencing development plans and accessing core markets to restore confidence and business. The skilful use of multiscaled actions by both parties in securing more capital resonates strongly with relational scale theory: recognizing scale as a fluid expression of power creates multiple opportunities for social transformation (Ellem, 2002;Herod & Wright, 2002;Howitt, 2003).…”

Section: Examining Disaster Vulnerability Thailandmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Stemming from geographical theory on spatial organization, relational scale recognizes scale as a fluid and dynamic sociopolitical construct that reflects the subjectivity of historical and contemporary power processes. Through the deconstruction of ‘naturalized’ scales of social organization (such as national, regional, local, and so on), relational scale explores the way in which actors simultaneously use multiple scaled social processes and supporting structures to either reinforce the uneven balance of power within a given society or create new landscapes of power, recognition and opportunity (Howitt, 1993; Ellem, 2002; Herod & Wright, 2002). The angle depends on the politicized agendas or positionality of the actors involved.…”

Section: Building a Framework For Analyzing Tourism Destination Vulnementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sun, sea, sand and tsunami: examining disaster vulnerability in the tourism community of Khao Lak, Thailand

Calgaro

Lloyd

2008

Singap J Trop Geogr

117

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The impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on coastal tourism communities highlights the vulnerability of tourism destinations to external shocks. Based on fieldwork conducted in Thailand in the wake of this disaster, this paper addresses one fundamental question: what sociopolitical and environmental conditions contributed to the vulnerability of the affected tourism community of Khao Lak in the southern Phang Nga Province. We argue that an understanding of the root causes of destination vulnerability is vital not only for the successful implementation of regional recovery plans, but also for building long-term resilience against future shocks. In the absence of an appropriate tourism vulnerability framework, this paper analyzes Khao Lak's vulnerability through an innovative theoretical framework comprised of the sustainability vulnerability framework, relational scale and place. The findings reveal that Khao Lak's vulnerability is shaped by 13 interlinked factors. These are the complex outcomes of social norms and developmental and dynamic governance processes driven by the competing agendas and scaled actions of key government and industry stakeholders. The identification and understanding of the drivers of Khao Lak's vulnerability and a strong vulnerability framework have significant implications for the wider tourism community. First, the empirical findings provide tourism communities with a blueprint for understanding the foundations of their vulnerability to external shocks. Second, the tourism vulnerability framework presented here provides destination communities and government stakeholders with an analytical tool through which to analyze their unique sociopolitical conditions. Together, these empirical and theoretical contributions bring us closer to securing sustainable livelihood futures for tourism dependent communities.

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Section: Examining Disaster Vulnerability Thailandmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Building a Framework For Analyzing Tourism Destination Vulnementioning

confidence: 99%

Sun, sea, sand and tsunami: examining disaster vulnerability in the tourism community of Khao Lak, Thailand

Calgaro

Lloyd

2008

Singap J Trop Geogr

117

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“…The organizing approach is generally taken to mean union strategy that embodies a pivotal role for workplace union delegates (representatives) in activating members, recruiting and thus reviving union membership (Bronfenbrenner et al. 1998; Carter and Cooper 2002; Ellem 2002; Erickson et al. 2002; Findlay and McKinlay 2003).…”

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An Analysis of Workplace Representatives, Union Power and Democracy in Australia

Peetz

Pocock

2009

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The purpose of this article is to illuminate the views and experiences of workplace representatives in Australia in the context of falling union density, and to analyse factors that are most strongly associated with subjective union power at the workplace level, as perceived by delegates. The analysis relies on a large random survey of workplace delegates in eight significant Australian unions. The article describes the situation broadly facing delegates as shown by the survey and analyses a set of factors associated with the power of workers as perceived by delegates. We find that higher levels of reported activism among delegates are strongly associated with greater subjective union power. We also find that self-reported delegate confidence is also strongly associated with perceptions of higher union power, as is delegate's clarity about their roles. The data also show a strong association between perceptions of democracy within the union and union power. Support for delegates from the union office and organizers is also associated with higher levels of union power at the local level. The analysis provides some support for union renewal strategies associated with the 'organizing model' as applied in Australia and some other Anglo-Saxon countries that aim to increase the activism of workplace delegates through education, the provision of support for workplace delegates and more democratic union structures. Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2009.

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“…These contests over the geographies of power are by no means confined to the workplace, or to workers' institutions. As this paper will show, they are not even necessarily confined to issues arising in the workplace (for a fuller discussion, see Ellem 2002b).…”

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New Unionism in the Old Economy: Community and Collectivism in the Pilbara’s Mining Towns

Ellem

2003

Journal of Industrial Relations

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T his paper focuses on union renewal and the nature and prospects of 'community unionism' as unions struggle to define and control the spaces in which workers and their families labour and live. It assesses the processes of union renewal in the iron ore industry in Western Australia's north-west, where the Pilbara Mineworkers Union, a new organisation, has appeared. This union aims to organise workers nominally covered by four mining unions and appears to be an emergent 'community union', in a social and spatial setting where work and community issues overlap. The new organisation has followed on from other Pilbara struggles in which the organising strategy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been seized upon with particular enthusiasm, meshing with local traditions and the needs of the present. These developments cannot be fully understood without thinking about the geographies of work, community and regulation which have been interconstitutive with unionism's Pilbara trajectory. Analysing this case begins to provide a specific illustration of how union structures and strategies actually do change, as opposed to merely recapitulating arguments about how unions should change.

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Power, Place And Scale: Union Recognition In The Pilbara, 1999–2002

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Sun, sea, sand and tsunami: examining disaster vulnerability in the tourism community of Khao Lak, Thailand

Sun, sea, sand and tsunami: examining disaster vulnerability in the tourism community of Khao Lak, Thailand

An Analysis of Workplace Representatives, Union Power and Democracy in Australia

New Unionism in the Old Economy: Community and Collectivism in the Pilbara’s Mining Towns

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