Globalization
Consequences for Work and Employment in Advanced Capitalist Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23670752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Elger (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0150 |
| OpenAlex | W1509491898 |
| ISBN | 9781118900772 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This essay considers the consequences of globalization for work and employment in advanced capitalist societies. It outlines the classic arguments of hyperglobalists, sceptics, and transformationalists. It first discusses the roles of multinational companies (MNCs) in both disseminating and differentiating distinctive models of work organization and employment relations across their international operations, emphasizing the micropolitical mediation of such processes and the interplay of “system,” “societal,” and “dominance” effects in the selection and hybridization of such models. It next considers the roles of corporate and state actors in recasting national institutional configurations, highlighting the contradictory and contested features of such configurations, and the scope for substantive remaking despite apparent institutional continuity. It then considers agendas for future research which build on these arguments but give fuller consideration to service MNCs and MNC operations beyond advanced capitalist societies. Finally, it notes the possible impact of other vectors of globalization on overall trends and variations in work and employment across societies.
Dominance (genetics) · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Globalization · Mediation · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Scope (computer science) · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Changing Capitalisms?
Labour in a Global World
Living Labour
Economic Crisis, Quality of Work, and Social Integration
Global Transformations
Low-road Americanization’ and the global ‘McJob’
Power, institutions and the cross-national transfer of employment practices in multinationals
U.S. Multinationals and the Control of Subsidiary Employment Policies
Human Resource Management Practices in the Multinational Company
Control over Employment Practice in Multinationals
Multinational Companies in Cross-National Context
Race to the East, race to the bottom? Multi-nationals and industrial relations in two sectors in the Czech Republic
Working space
India calling to the far away towns
A Common Neoliberal Trajectory
Globalization, multinationals and institutional diversity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |