Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity - Couverture rigide

Webster, Edward; Lambert, Rob; Beziudenhout, Andries

 
9781405129152: Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1405129158 ISBN 13 : 9781405129152
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*

Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.

  • Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion
  • Analyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring
  • Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts

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À propos de l?auteur

Edward Webster is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Rob Lambert is the Chair of Labour Studies at UWA's Business School and is the Director of the Australian Global Studies Research Centre.

Andries Bezuidenhout works as a senior researcher in the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1405129158
ISBN 13 
9781405129152
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781405129145: Grounding Globalization: Labour in the age of insecurity

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  140512914X ISBN 13 :  9781405129145
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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