Webster / Lambert / Beziudenhout Grounding Globalization

Labour in the Age of Insecurity
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0302-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize,awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and LaborMovements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labourinternationalism in response to the growing insecurity created byglobalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecuritythey often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign ofhope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others areattempting to globalize their own struggles.
* Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism isemerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather thanassertion
* Analyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia;Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and howthey dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring
* Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity andexamines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements tosuch insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-nationalcorporations, and worker responses to this, connect the twoconcepts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, Edward

Lambert, Rob

Beziudenhout, Andries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Journey of Discovery.
List of Abbreviations.
1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi.
Part One: Markets Against Society.
2. Manufacturing Matters.
3. The Return of Market Despotism.
4. Citizenship Matters.
Part Two: Society Against Markets.
5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni.
6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon.
7. Squeezing Orange.
Part Three: Society Governing the Market?
8. History Matters.
9. Grounding Labour Internationalism.
10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Webster is Professor of Sociology and Director of theSociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of theWitwatersrand.
Rob Lambert is the Chair of Labour Studies at UWA'sBusiness School and is the Director of the Australian GlobalStudies Research Centre.
Andries Bezuidenhout works as a senior researcher in theSociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.