Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance. Emphasizing the importance of agency, this book analyzes transnational labour action in times of crisis, historically and now. It draws on a variety of fascinating cases, across formal and informal collectives,...
Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour ...
Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance. Emphasizing the importance of agency, this book analyzes transnational labour action in times of crisis, historically and now. It draws on a variety of fascinating cases, across formal and informal collectives,...
Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour ...
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy's hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this 'miracle' in the form of workers' long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back....
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some ev...
Addresses the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, global crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and world-ecology to appeal to scholars and students alike.
Addresses the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, global crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and...
This book addresses the internal relations of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and world-ecology to appeal to scholars and students alike.
This book addresses the internal relations of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reprodu...
