Grounding Globalization
Labour in the Age of Insecurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19916885 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Webster (0000-0003-2540-3052), Eddie Webster, Andries Beziudenhout, Rob Lambert, Robert Lambert, Andries Bezuidenhout (0000-0003-0714-0711) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Grounding Globalization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444303018 |
| OpenAlex | W239211528 |
| Open Library | OL16395477M |
| ISBN | 9781444303018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 132 |
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
Citizenship · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Globalization · Internationalism (politics) · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Anti-globalization movement · Economic aspects · Economic aspects of Globalization · Labor movement · Liberalism · Neoliberalism
Sociología Global
Trade union politics as a countermovement? A Polaniyan perspective
Trade unions and the Polanyian countermovement
The Transnationalism Rooted in Production and the 'Place' of the Global Union
Institutionalization of the Sociology of Consumption in Russia
Russia's Accession to the WTO in the Mirror of Russian Print Media
Explaining Economic Growth in China
Ação coletiva transnacional na cadeia de confecção do vestuário e a questão de gênero
Work futures
Organizing across divides
Precarity and agency through a migration lens
Nuevas formas del movimiento obrero
Trade unions and climate change
Life in the Travelling Circus’
Hidden transcripts of the gig economy
Individual Trust and Distrust in South African Trade Unions
Between the street and Aso Rock
Dinâmicas Da Ação Coletiva No Brasil Contemporâneo
Cross-border Trade Union Networks in Transnational Corporation
Presentation to the Dossier
Building a regional solidarity network of transnational activists
O crescimento do trabalho precário
Representing foreign workers in the private security industry
Locked in, logged out
The labour geographies of education
Agency by exit
Digital Work, Human Labour, and Development
Fieldwork Overview
Digital Taylorism
Africa’s New Digital Connectivity and Economic Change
Futures of work
Hopes and Realities of the Digital
Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance
Economic Geographies of Digital Work in Africa
Trade Unions
Die politische Ökonomie der „Überflüssigen“
The Power Resources Approach
Probing Precarious Work
Promise and pitfalls of mandatory due diligence for enhancing worker power in global value chains
The behavioural foundations of urban and regional development
Workplace regimes
Varieties of platform unionism
The return of the labour process
Eddie Webster’s Contribution to Sociological Studies of Skill
Social Movement Unionism
The role of social media and network capital in assisting migrants in search of a less precarious existence in Saudi Arabia
The Engineer … No Longer a Person but a Number on an Excel Sheet
Transnational Labour Solidarity as Transformative Practice
The Selective Return of Labor Casualization in Western European Ports
Trois mécanismes de gouvernance pour remédier aux déficits de travail décent dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales
The Nexus Between Sources of Workers’ Power in the Garment Manufacturing Industries of Lesotho and Eswatini
Place Matters
Workplace Suicide and States of Denial
Globalisation and trade unions
Globalization and Its Countermovement
Inequality in Work Time
Internationalist Challenges
The Congress of South African Trade Unions and Free Trade
The rise of the capital-state
Unfreedoms in south India’s tea value chain
Goodbye labouring man , long live homo economicus
The China Price
Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry
Free Trade and the New Labour Internationalism
What Future for Chinese Labour and Transnational Solidarity
Beyond traditional trade unionism
Towards resonant places
The double movement in Africa
Glocalising Union Organising
Global Sociology
Interrogating Dispossession for Development in Ethiopia
Geographies of production III
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour
Institutionalised conflict, subaltern worker rebellions and insurgent unionism
Left to Our Own Devices
Anomie and culture management
The Emergence of Clinical Sociology in South Africa
The Digital Continent
Between a rock and a hard place
Labor control regimes and worker resistance in global supply chains
Constrained agency and everyday borderworkers in public sector institutions
Double movements and pendular forces
Managers in the Global Economy
The legacies of coercion and the challenges of contingency
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
A suicide survivor
The politics of global production
The EU, Global Europe, and processes of uneven and combined development
Transformations of work
Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria
Contesting Labor Internationalism
Evaluation of Labor Agency Strategy
Sliding Scale of Spaces and Dilemmas of Internationalism
From Compounded to Fragmented Labour
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism
Agent of the market, or instrument of justice? Redefining trade union identity in the era of market driven politics
Global internationalism
The ‘iron law of oligarchy’ and North-South relations in global union organisations
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency
Global labour studies
| Unique citing works | 132 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |