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Grounding Globalization : Labour in the Age of Insecurity
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- •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 assertion Analyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring Explores 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
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781405129152, 9781405129145, 9781444303018, 9781444303025, and 9781444399844
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Grounding Globalization : Labour in the Age of Insecurity
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 267063