Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity

By Edward Webster, Andries Beziudenhout, Rob Lambert, et al.

Book Overview

*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and LaborMovements section*

Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labourinternationalism in response to the growing insecurity created byglobalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecuritythey often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign ofhope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others areattempting to globalize their own struggles.

Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism isemerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather thanassertionAnalyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia;Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and howthey dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity andexamines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements tosuch insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-nationalcorporations, and worker responses to this, connect the twoconcepts

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405129158
• ISBN13: 9781405129152
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"