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Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
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The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://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.
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