Labour and the Challenges of Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? - Softcover

Andreas Bieler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745327567 ISBN 13: 9780745327563

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones. The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers. The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.

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About the Author

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Ingemar Lindberg, a former trade unionist, is a senior researcher at the Swedish think-tank Agora. Devan Pillay, a former trade unionist, is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745327567
• ISBN 13: 9780745327563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg, Devan Pillay