Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

Verity Burgmann (Monash University, Australia)

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English

Routledge
21 March 2018

Social & political philosophy; Society & culture: general; Sociology: work & labour; Marxism & Communism; Economics & Business; Political economy

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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.

By: Verity Burgmann (Monash University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138594159
ISBN 10: 1138594156
Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 21 March 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: the Workers of the Globalizing World 1. Working-class Agency and Labour Movement Action 2.Confronting Post-Fordist Production 3. Reversing Decline by Going Online? 4. Subverting the Shift in Production 5 .Countering Capital Mobility 6. Confounding Workforce Fragmentation 7. Opposing Unemployment and Precarity 8. Protecting the Public 9. Raging Against the Rich Conclusion: Striking Back Against Empire

Verity Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.