Globalisation State And Labour

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Al Rainnie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134186440

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Globalisation, State and Labour by Peter Fairbrother,Al Rainnie Pdf

Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour. It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes involving politics, the economy and society, the position and place of the state, and the significance of state policy in this process, is heavily contested. Presenting a timely opportunity to review and re-assess the modern state with regards to labour, the essays included in this text, written by leading researchers in the area, develop a new theoretical framework that puts work, workers and their organizations at the heart of analyzing state restructuring. Using major studies from four countries (UK, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand), the contributors challenge many preconceptions regarding globalization and labour organization - including the notions that the state is being marginalized by the processes of globalization, and that the trade unions are becoming irrelevant.

Author : Debdas Banerjee,Michael Goldfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134059751

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Labor, Globalization and the State by Debdas Banerjee,Michael Goldfield Pdf

This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best levers for raising labour standards, provided labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring accompany them. Labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring, at a first glance, appear to be complementary and symmetric policies. In practice, however, they might have very asymmetric consequences. This book addresses these issues, and it presents a comprehensive analysis of the key questions such as: How far is globalization a ‘real’ threat to the conventional systems of wage fixation, employment pattern, and basic rights at work in both developed, as well as underdeveloped countries? Are casualization and informalization of the workforce direct outcomes of deregulation? How do labour organizations cope with the volatility of the labour market? Are the existing labour market conditions and forms of labour organizations misfits in the globalized business world? Is it at all feasible to choose a high road that combines some degree of labour market flexibility with better labour standards? This book will be of interest to academics working on International Development, Development Economics, Political Economy, Comparative Labour Studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Debdas Banerjee,Michael Goldfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134059744

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Labor, Globalization and the State by Debdas Banerjee,Michael Goldfield Pdf

This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best levers for raising labour standards, provided labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring accompany them. Labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring, at a first glance, appear to be complementary and symmetric policies. In practice, however, they might have very asymmetric consequences. This book addresses these issues, and it presents a comprehensive analysis of the key questions such as: How far is globalization a ‘real’ threat to the conventional systems of wage fixation, employment pattern, and basic rights at work in both developed, as well as underdeveloped countries? Are casualization and informalization of the workforce direct outcomes of deregulation? How do labour organizations cope with the volatility of the labour market? Are the existing labour market conditions and forms of labour organizations misfits in the globalized business world? Is it at all feasible to choose a high road that combines some degree of labour market flexibility with better labour standards? This book will be of interest to academics working on International Development, Development Economics, Political Economy, Comparative Labour Studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Martin Upchurch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317727699

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The State and 'Globalization' by Martin Upchurch Pdf

This collection of country studies explores changing relationships between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal market agendas. The authors express concern at the potentially ravaging effects of market deregulation on organized labour and present a critical account of state efforts to emulate desired models of national economic development. While the central core of the book concerns itself with changing labour relations, this is placed within the wider context of state and employer strategy, and covers issues such as labour market segmentation, welfare and taxation regimes and varying approaches to corporatism.

Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039115766

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Global Labour History by Jan Lucassen Pdf

Part I: Historiography Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope 39 Jan Lucassen African Labor History 91 Frederick Cooper Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa 117 Zachary Lockman Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia 147 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance 161 Akira Suzuki Fin-de-Si6cle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition 195 Bryan D. Palmer Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 227 Dick Geary The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions 289 John D. French What's in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania 335 Lucy Taksa Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China 373 Arif Dirlik The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia 397 Andrei Sokolov Part 2: Case Studies in Comparative Labour History Worldwide Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective 455 Prasannan Parthasarathi Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections 479 Ratna Saptari Brickmakers in Western Europe (17oo00-19oo) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons 513 Jan Lucassen Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts 573 Ian Phimister "Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth": Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 591 Lex Heerma van Voss Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns 623 Shelton Stromquist.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026145172

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Globalisation and Labour by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of labor's worldwide response to globalization. Ronaldo Munck argues that the national period in labor history is decisively over. Now the labor movement is itself acting in a more transnational manner, with workers developing common interests and ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Indeed, the trade union movement could play a major role in the regulation of a global economic system now largely out of control.

Author : Joanne Conaghan,Richard Michael Fischl,Karl Klare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019927181X

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Labour Law in an Era of Globalization by Joanne Conaghan,Richard Michael Fischl,Karl Klare Pdf

Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labor law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labor law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition. These essays--which are the product of a transnational comparative dialog among academics and practitioners in labor law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development--identify, analyze, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization.

Author : Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136708190

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Unions and Globalisation by Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams Pdf

In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically, in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor geography and business studies in general.

Author : Jeremy Waddington
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : 0720123690

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Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance by Jeremy Waddington Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : D. Coffey,C. Thornley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230244603

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Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism by D. Coffey,C. Thornley Pdf

A study of Britain as a capitalism poised between American and European models, exploring themes of legitimation, denial and opportunism via a series of substantial case studies framed by a reinterpretation of Thatcherism's economic contexts and a critical assessment of New Labour.

Author : Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : MSU:31293027415581

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Globalization and the Canadian Economy by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies Pdf

Author : Paul Edwards,Tony Elger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317949022

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The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour by Paul Edwards,Tony Elger Pdf

The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance edited by Jeremy Waddington, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research on the relationship between the globalization of production and the regulation of labour. It considers the ways in which national and supra-national regimes of labour regulation are being actively reconstructed in the context of the internationalization of production. The contributors analyze the implications of changes in different national labour regimes for relations between state, capital and labour, and for class and gender segmentation, and discuss the scope and limits of recent initiatives in the implementation of international labour standards.

Author : Peter Fairbrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415416647

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Unions and Globalisation by Peter Fairbrother Pdf

In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this context, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism, the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism. This book addresses these questions both theoretically, in relation to debates, as well as substantively via a series of selected studies. It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations, human resource management, the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, economic and labor geography and business studies in general.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264274860

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OECD Employment Outlook 2017 by OECD Pdf

The 2017 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook reviews recent labour market trends and short-term prospects in OECD countries.

Author : David Greenaway,Richard Upward,Peter Wright
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131716156

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Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment by David Greenaway,Richard Upward,Peter Wright Pdf

This book explores theoretical developments of trade models, examining labour mobility, unemployment and training in models of international trade, as well as migration and labour markets, the wage and unemployment impacts of adjustment, adjustment and occupational mobility, exchange rate fluctuations and trade exposure, fragmentation and the labour market.