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Author Burgmann, Verity, author.

Title Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century / Verity Burgmann.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource.
Series Routledge advances in international political economy ; 27
Routledge advances in international political economy ; 27.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the workers of the globalizing world -- Working-class agency and labour movement action -- Confronting post-Fordist production -- Reversing decline by going online? -- Subverting the shift in production -- Countering capital mobility -- Confounding workforce fragmentation -- Opposing unemployment and precarity -- Protecting the public -- Raging against the rich -- Conclusion: striking back against empire.
Summary "Globalization 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"--Provided by publisher.
Note Print version record.
Subject Labor movement -- History -- 21st century.
Labor and globalization.
Capitalism -- History -- 21st century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
Labor and globalization. (OCoLC)fst01894303
Labor movement. (OCoLC)fst00990079
Globalisierung. (DE-588)4557997-0
Arbeit. (DE-588)4002567-6
Arbeiterbewegung. (DE-588)4002581-0
Politische Ökonomie. (DE-588)4115586-5
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Burgmann, Verity. Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 9780415528535 (DLC) 2015043510 (OCoLC)953150189
ISBN 9781317227823 (electronic book)
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9781317227830 (electronic book)
1317227832 (electronic book)
9781315624044 (electronic book)
1315624044 (electronic book)
9780415528535 (hardback)
0415528534 (hardback)
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