Forces of Labor - Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Hardcover)

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Beverly J. Silver
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-81751-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > General
LSN:	0-521-81751-X
Barcode:	9780521817516

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