Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century / Verity Burgmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgmann, Verity, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in international political economy ; 27.

Routledge Advances in International Political Economy ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--History--21st century.

Labor movement.

Labor and globalization.

Capitalism--History--21st century.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in developing countries, militant new labour movements are emerging. Drawing upon insights in anti-determinist Marxian perspectives, Verity Burgmann shows how working-class resistance is not futile, as protagonists of globalization often claim. She identifies eight characteristics of globalization harmful to workers and describes and analyses how they have responded collectively to these problems since 1990 and especially this century. With case studies from around the world, including Greece since 2008, she pays particular attention to new types of labour movement organization and mobilization that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations or political institutions to change. Aging and less agile manifestations of the labour movement decline while new expressions of working-class organization and mobilization arise to better battle with corporate globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, globalization, political economy, Marxism and sociology of work.

Contents:

Introduction: the workers of the globalizing world

1. Working-class agency and labour movement action

2. Confronting post-Fordist production

3. Reversing decline by going online?

4. Subverting the shift in production

5. Countering capital mobility

6. Confounding workforce fragmentation

7. Opposing unemployment and precarity

8. Protecting the public

9. Raging against the rich

Conclusion: striking back against empire.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

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ISBN:

9781317227830

1317227832

9781315624044

1315624044

9781317227823

1317227824

OCLC:

946887304

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access