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Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development
paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows
that people and governments in all three countries are faced with
similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by
liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which
governments, as well as individuals and worker organisations in
IBSA have responded to these challenges are at the core of this
book. The book explores the nature of insecurity in the Global
South; the nature of the responses to this insecurity on public and
small-scale collective as well as individual level; the potential
of these responses to be more than neo-liberal mechanisms to govern
and contain the poor and lessons to be learnt from these three
countries. The first section covers livelihood strategies in urban
and rural areas as individual and small-scale collective response
to the condition of insecurity. Insecurity in the countries of the
South is characterised by a high degree of uncertainty of the
availability of income opportunities. The second section looks at
state responses to insecurity and contributions on social
protection measures taken by the respective IBSA governments. The
third section discusses whether alternative development paths can
be identified. The aim is to move beyond 'denunciatory analysis.'
Livelihood strategies as well as public policies in some of the
cases allow for the building of new spaces for agency and
contestation of a neo-liberal mainstream which provide emerging and
experimental examples. The book develops new thinking on Northern
welfare states and their declining trade unions. It argues that
these concepts, knowledge and policy innovations are now travelling
in three directions, from North to South, from South to North, and
between Southern countries. This book provides unique insights for
researchers and postgraduate students in development studies,
social policy and industrial sociology.
Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development
paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows
that people and governments in all three countries are faced with
similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by
liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which
governments, as well as individuals and worker organisations in
IBSA have responded to these challenges are at the core of this
book. The book explores the nature of insecurity in the Global
South; the nature of the responses to this insecurity on public and
small-scale collective as well as individual level; the potential
of these responses to be more than neo-liberal mechanisms to govern
and contain the poor and lessons to be learnt from these three
countries. The first section covers livelihood strategies in urban
and rural areas as individual and small-scale collective response
to the condition of insecurity. Insecurity in the countries of the
South is characterised by a high degree of uncertainty of the
availability of income opportunities. The second section looks at
state responses to insecurity and contributions on social
protection measures taken by the respective IBSA governments. The
third section discusses whether alternative development paths can
be identified. The aim is to move beyond 'denunciatory analysis.'
Livelihood strategies as well as public policies in some of the
cases allow for the building of new spaces for agency and
contestation of a neo-liberal mainstream which provide emerging and
experimental examples. The book develops new thinking on Northern
welfare states and their declining trade unions. It argues that
these concepts, knowledge and policy innovations are now travelling
in three directions, from North to South, from South to North, and
between Southern countries. This book provides unique insights for
researchers and postgraduate students in development studies,
social policy and industrial sociology.
Die Autoren liefern Begrundungen fur die Notwendigkeit der
internationalen Regulierung von Arbeitsstandards, bevor sie sich
mit potentiellen Protagonisten, den einzelnen Instrumenten,
Moeglichkeiten und Hindernissen fur deren Durchsetzung
beschaftigen. Unter der Leitfrage "Welche Potentiale und Interessen
haben die verschiedenen Akteure?" werden in Fallstudien
Gewerkschaften, Soziale Bewegungen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen
(NGOs), die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) und die
Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) untersucht. Instrumente wie Codes of
Conduct, ILO Kernarbeitsnormen oder Handelsvertrage werden an Hand
von weiteren Fallstudien auf ihre Tauglichkeit fur die Umsetzung
von ILS gepruft. Diese Studien, die weit mehr Instrumente und
Akteure betrachten als andere Publikationen zum Thema, bieten den
Ausgangspunkt fur die Analyse von Perspektiven internationaler
Regulierung von Arbeitsstandards.
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