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024 7 _a10.4324/9781315624044
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)946887304
050 4 _aHD4855
_b.B87 2016
082 0 4 _a331.88
_bB956
100 1 _aBurgmann, Verity.,
_eauthor.
_912749
245 1 0 _aGlobalization and labour in the twenty-first century /
_cVerity Burgmann.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2016.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aRoutledge advances in international political economy ;
_v27
505 0 _a1. Working-class agency and labour movement action -- 2. Confronting post-Fordist production -- 3. Reversing decline by going online? -- 4. Subverting the shift in production -- 5. Countering capital mobility -- 6. Confounding workforce fragmentation -- 7. Opposing unemployment and precarity -- 8. Protecting the public -- 9. Raging against the rich.
520 _aGlobalization 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.
650 0 _aLabor movement
_xHistory
_y21st century.
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650 0 _aLabor and globalization.
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650 0 _aCapitalism
_xHistory
_y21st century.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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_w(DLC) 2015043510
830 0 _aRoutledge advances in international political economy ;
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856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315624044
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