Globalization and labour in the Twenty-First Century /

Globalisation has adversely affected working-class organisation and mobilisation; but international labour movement demobilisation is not necessarily an irreversible trend. Globalisation has prompted workers and their organisations to find new ways to mobilise. This book examines international labou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgmann, Verity (Verity Nancy), 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016
Series:Routledge advances in international political economy
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Online Access:http://www.tandfebooks.com/action/showBook?doi=10.4324/9781315624044
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Workers of the Globalizing World 1. 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 Conclusion: Striking Back Against Empire