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Grounding Globalization

Labour in the Age of Insecurity

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

AvEdward Webster,Rob Lambert,Andries Beziudenhout,WEBSTER,Beziudenhout

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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles. Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertionAnalyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-06-06
Mått155 x 231 x 16 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAntipode Book Series
Antal sidor288
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405129145
UtmärkelserWinner of Scholarly Monograph Prize 2009 (United States)

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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)

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