Grounding Globalization

• Date de parution : 02/08/2011
• Editeur : Wiley-blackwell
• EAN : 9781444399844
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• Support : Livre numérique

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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when... Voir plus

*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertionAnalyzes three distinct places Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts