The politics of labor in a global age : continuity and change in late-industralizing and post-socialist economies / edited by Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Candland, Christopher.

Sil, Rudra, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative industrial relations.

Industrial relations--Developing countries--Case studies.

Industrial relations.

Post-communism.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Foreign trade and employment.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." As unions in late-developing countries engaged in economic liberalization, and as unions in post-socialist economies cope with the break down of command economies, these pressures have grown. The authors also reveal that globalization has weakened organized labor, yet they explain that distinct labor institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures. Globalization may even facilitate variation in the pattern of labor relations at national, local, and workplace levels, and within and across late-industrializing and post-socialist settings.

Contents:

The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age / Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil

Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico / M. Victoria Murillo

the cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan / Christopher Candland

Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories / Scott B. Martin

Globalization, social partnership, and industrial relations in Ireland / Eileen M. Doherty

Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations / Charles Weathers

Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China / Xiaobo Lu

Privatization, labor, politics, and the firm in post-Soviet Russia: non-market norms, market institutions, and the Soviet legacy / Rudra Sil

Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy / Jeffrey Kopstein - Corporatist renaissance in post-Coomunist Central Europe? / Mitchell A. Orenstein and Lisa E. Hale

Institutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective / Rudra Sil and Christopher Candland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-338) and index.

ISBN:

0199240817

0199241147

OCLC:

45669160