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      Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
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      Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century book

      ByVerity Burgmann
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 5 May 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624044
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9781315624044
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Burgmann, V. (2016). Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624044

      ABSTRACT

      The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction

      The workers of the globalizing world

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      chapter 1|19 pages

      Working-class agency and labour movement action

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      chapter 2|20 pages

      Confronting post-Fordist production

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      chapter 3|24 pages

      Reversing decline by going online?

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      chapter 4|28 pages

      Subverting the shift in production

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      chapter 5|28 pages

      Countering capital mobility

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      chapter 6|21 pages

      Confounding workforce fragmentation

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      chapter 7|25 pages

      Opposing unemployment and precarity

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      chapter 8|30 pages

      Protecting the public

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      chapter 9|27 pages

      Raging against the rich

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      chapter |6 pages

      Conclusion

      Striking back against Empire

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