Labour and the Challenges of Globalization

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008).Ingemar Lindberg is a former trade unionist and senior researcher at the Swedish think-tank Agora. He is the co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008).Devan Pillay, a former trade unionist, is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008).

• Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword: Samir Amin Rebuilding the unity of the 'labour front'1. The Future of the Global Working Class: an introduction, by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay2. The Contested Politics of Gender and Irregular Employment: Revitalizing the South Korean Democratic Labour Movement, by Jennifer Jihye Chun3. Globalisation and the informalisation of labour: the case of South Africa, by Devan Pillay4. Globalization and Labour in India: Emerging Challenges and Responses, by Praveen Jha5. How China's Migrant Labour is Becoming the New Proletariat by Wen Tiejun 6. The globalisation of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work: Challenges for and responses from Argentine unions, by Isabel Rauber7. Neoliberal Policies, Labour Market Restructuring and Social Exclusion: Brazil's Working Class Response, by Kjeld Jakobsen and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa8. The Impact of Globalisation on Trade Unions: The Situation in Japan, by Wakana Shutô and Mac Urata9. Challenges facing the Canadian Labour Movement in the context of globalisation, unemployment and the casualisation of labour, by Geoff Bickerton and Jane Stinson10. German trade unions between neo-liberal restructuring, social partnership and internationalism, by Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten11. Swedish unions and Globalisation: labour strategies in a changing global order, by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg12. Building alliances between formal and informal workers: Experiences from Africa, by Ilda Lindell13. European integration: a strategic level for trade union resistance to neo-liberal restructuring and for the promotion of political alternatives?, by Andreas Bieler and Thorsten Schulten14. A Trade Union Internationalism for the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges from Above, Below and Beyond, by Peter Waterman15. What future strategy for the global working class? The need for a new historical subject, by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan PillayBibliographyIndex

'Breaks new ground by anchoring the response of labour to globalisation in the strategies of individual labour movements'