Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century
"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 uni...
| Main Author: | Burgmann, Verity, |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Routledge advances in international political economy ;
27. |
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| Online Access: |
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Table of 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.