Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

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ID5795375
AuthorsVerity Burgmann (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages261
Publication date2016-04-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGlobalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315624044
OpenAlexW4211028589
Open LibraryOL28359149M
ISBN9781315624044
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited15

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in developing countries, militant new labour movements are emerging. Drawing upon insights in anti-determinist Marxian perspectives, Verity Burgmann shows how working-class resistance is not futile, as protagonists of globalization often claim. She identifies eight characteristics of globalization harmful to workers and describes and analyses how they have responded collectively to these problems since 1990 and especially this century. With case studies from around the world, including Greece since 2008, she pays particular attention to new types of labour movement organization and mobilization that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations or political institutions to change. Aging and less agile manifestations of the labour movement decline while new expressions of working-class organization and mobilization arise to better battle with corporate globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, globalization, political economy, Marxism and sociology of work

Labour economics · POLITICS & GOVERNMENT · Labor Movements and Unions · Arbeiterbewegung · Capitalism · Economics · General · Globalisierung · Globalization · History · International Relations · Labor · Labor and globalization · Labor movement · Political science · Politics · politics and government · Politische Ökonomie · Society and social sciences Society and social sciences

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