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Grounding globalization : labour in the age of insecurity / Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Edward, 1942-2024
- Series:
- Antipode book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-globalization movement.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Neoliberalism.
- Labor movement.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
- Summary:
- Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. This book grounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households, and their communities. It compares three towns - Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa - and shows how the global restructuring of white goods corporations is creating a profound experience of insecurity within workers, their families, and their communities.
- Grounding Globalization contains a warning: at times, workers do turn inward and become fatalistic, even xenophobic. But there are also signs of hope. The book explores the possibilities of re-empowering labor through engaging space and scale in new ways. Workers are rising to the challenge of neoliberal globalization by attempting to globalize their own struggles.
- Contents:
- Preface: A Journey of Discovery vi
- 1 The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi 1
- Part I Markets Against Society 23
- 2 Manufacturing Matters 27
- 3 The Return of Market Despotism 51
- 4 Citizenship Matters 78
- Part II Society Against Markets 105
- 5 Strong Winds in Ezakheni 109
- 6 Escaping Social Death in Changwon 127
- 7 Squeezing Orange 141
- Part III Society Governing the Market? 157
- 8 History Matters 161
- 9 Grounding Labour Internationalism 186
- 10 The Necessity for Utopian Thinking 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405129145
- 140512914X
- 9781405129152
- 1405129158
- OCLC:
- 183926430
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- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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