Grounding Globalization : Labour in the Age of Insecurity Hardback
by Edward (University of the Witwatersrand) Webster, Rob (University of Western Australia) Lambert, Andries (Wits University) Beziudenhout
Part of the Antipode Book Series series
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*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 assertionAnalyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores 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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:06/06/2008
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- ISBN:9781405129152
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:06/06/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405129152
