Grounding Globalization

Edward Webster is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rob Lambert is the Chair of Labour Studies at UWA’s Business School and is the Director of the Australian Global Studies Research Centre. Andries Bezuidenhout works as a senior researcher in the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.

• Preface: A Journey of Discovery. List of Abbreviations.1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi.Part One: Markets Against Society.2. Manufacturing Matters.3. The Return of Market Despotism.4. Citizenship Matters.Part Two: Society Against Markets.5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni.6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon.7. Squeezing Orange.Part Three: Society Governing the Market?8. History Matters.9. Grounding Labour Internationalism.10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking.Notes.References.Index.

“Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a ‘new’ international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a ‘grounded’ understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008)