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Uncertain Times Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Neoliberalism.
Labor unions--Organizing.
Labor unions.
Organizational behavior.
Business anthropology.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Manufacture:
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
Place of Publication:
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
Summary:
"The first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, Uncertain Times addresses the theory that traditional labor union organization has been co-opted by the neoliberal policies of corporate capital and become a member service rather than a driver of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Hope for labor in a neoliberal world / Paul Durrenberger
Anthropologists, activists, and the labor movement / Emma Braden
The gift of labor : the town, the union and the corporate state in the demise of the Swedish car industry / Staffan Löfving
Trade unions, labor conflict and contested institutions in the Swiss construction industry / Christopher Kelley
Union power and transnational corporations in the Argentine steel industry / Julia Soul
Agents of change or status quo? Labor NGOs in South China / Darcy Pan
Labor struggles in the shipbuilding industry of Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis
The struggle for labor rights in the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico / María Eugenia de la O
Growers, unions, and farm laborers in Mexico's Baja California / Christian Zlolniski
Policies, economic forces, class relations and unions in Spain's strawberry fields : globalized agriculture in Andalusia / Alicia Reigada
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement's response in Turkey / Alpkan Birelma
Organized labor in contemporary Israeli retail chains / Gadi Nissim
National unions, international capital and bankworkers / Steven Payne.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781607326311
1607326310
OCLC:
1000128725

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