Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation (Critical Labour Movement Studies) - Hardcover

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9780719075865: Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation (Critical Labour Movement Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719075866 ISBN 13: 9780719075865
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

Synopsis

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world’s working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible. -- .

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About the Author

Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

From the Back Cover

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719075866
ISBN 13 
9780719075865
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256
Editor
Gamble Andrew, Ludlam Steve, Taylor Andrew, Wood Stephen