Labour and employment in a globalising world : autonomy, collectives and political dilemmas / Christian Azaïs (ed.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azaïs, Christian., Editor.

Contributor:

Azaïs, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market.

Labor supply.

Labor policy.

Manpower policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays provides new insight into the complex realities of labour and employment market globalization. The pluridisciplinary and multi-faced understanding of globalization is based upon ground research in ten countries from South to North. This collection of essays provides new insight into the complex realities of labour and employment market globalisation. The pluridisciplinary and multi-faced understanding of globalisation is based upon ground research in ten countries from South to North. Its contextualisation of globalising labour and employment market, perceived as process, constitutes the originality of the book. Globalisation is understood through a single process of both standardisation and differentiation, which also underscores its political agenda. The globalising process incorporates trends of convergent and somewhat undifferentiated Southern and Northern situations in labour and employment. Strong political perspectives thereby emerge to help understand changes in current capitalism and question the longstanding North to South paradigm. As labour and employment markets standardise and differentiate, what other problematical threads can be pulled to strengthen the hypothesis that trends converge within a single globalising process? The comparative concepts and tools proposed in this volume help to answer these queries.

Contents:

pt. 1. Institutional frameworks : what has changed in labour market policies?

pt. 2. Decentralisation and specialisation of labour and employer associations : emerging negotiation paradigms

pt. 3. Individual autonomy vs. collective responsibility in a world of flexible labour.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY

Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781299423190

1299423191

9783035260243

3035260249

Publisher Number:

10.3726/978-3-0352-6024-3

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access