Transnational Activism Global Labor Governance And China

Author : Sabrina Zajak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950225

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Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China by Sabrina Zajak Pdf

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and often punitive, approach to worker organizations. The author examines how the global labor movement can support the improvement of working conditions in Chinese factories. The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and China, the book shows that activists, by operating at multiple scales, were on some occasions able to support improvements over time. It also indicates how a politically and economically strong state such as China can affect transnational labor activism, by directly and indirectly undermining the opportunities that organized civil societies have to participate in the evolving global labor governance architecture.

Author : Thomas Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136865008

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Power and Transnational Activism by Thomas Olesen Pdf

This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, regional integration, national power, world social forums, policing, media power and global civil society. It will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, global sociology and international politics.

Author : Scott Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351586351

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Global Governance and China by Scott Kennedy Pdf

This volume offers systematic analysis of China’s growing engagement in global governance institutions over the past three decades. During this period, China has gone from outsider to observer to insider. The volume is based on studies of Chinese involvement in a wide cross section of regimes, including trade, finance, intellectual property rights, foreign aid, and climate change. The contributions show that China’s participation in global governance reflects the mutually interactive processes of China’s own socialization into the global community and the simultaneous adaptation of global institutions and actors to China’s growing activism. Both China and the international system are internally complex. Hence, Chinese engagement varies across economic regimes, yielding different results in terms of Chinese compliance, its influence on regimes, and the extent of cooperation and conflict in addressing challenges in international society. The chapters reveal that China is neither purely a savior nor scofflaw of the global economic system, and while China is a defender of the status quo in some areas, it is a reformer in others, and occasionally a revisionist in still other spheres. A detailed analysis of many areas of global governance, this volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of international relations, Chinese studies and global governance.

Author : Aneta Tyc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000395921

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Global Trade, Labour Rights and International Law by Aneta Tyc Pdf

This book provides a set of proposals for how best to guarantee effective enforcement of labour rights worldwide. The linkage between labour standards and global trade has been recurrent for some 200 years. At a time when the world is struggling to find a way out of crisis and is striving for economic growth, more than ever there is a need for up-to-date research on how to protect and promote labour rights in the global economy. This book explores the history of the field and also provides an overview of emerging trends and opportunities. It discusses the most recent problems including: the effectiveness and the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the second century of its existence, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its potential relevance in the protection of labour rights, the effectiveness of the US and the EU Generalised System of Preferences, the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) instruments on labour rights, and labour provisions in the international trade agreements concluded by the US and the EU. The book argues, inter alia, that trade agreements seem to be a useful tool to help pave the way out of the crisis and that the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) can be perceived as a model agreement and a symbol of a shift in perspective from long global supply chains to a focus on regional ones, local production, jobs and a rise in wages. The book will be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human rights law, international labour law, industrial relations law, international sustainable development law, international economic law and international trade law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, non-government organisations (NGOs) and policy makers.

Author : Ray Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030141486

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Resistance Under Communist China by Ray Wang Pdf

This book examines religious activism—Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism—in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China and countries with similar authoritarian environments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004514539

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In Search of the Global Labor Market by Anonim Pdf

The editors of this volume have crafted a coherent volume that addresses key issues of labor migration and provides in-depth critical discussions of the concept of “global labor markets”. It, thus, enriches our understanding of both globalization and labor markets.

Author : Xiaoming Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781352008692

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International Relations of East Asia by Xiaoming Huang Pdf

East Asia's rapidly changing role in international security, the global economy, development and global governance are expertly accounted for in this much-needed, state-of-the-art text. Xiaoming Huang offers an engaging and informed account of the key concepts, issues and actors working in this area. Ranging from the region's history, to culture and a comparative assessment of the region's states, this text is informed throughout by a compelling theoretical framework. In so doing, it unpicks the often complex relationships both at the domestic level and externally. Only with this understanding is it possible to make sense of the region's complex relationships both internally and externally. Structured around key concepts in international relations of war and peace, economic development and increased contemporary security threats, this text offers an empirically-rich, engaging account of the changing fortunes of East Asia.

Author : Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,Collins, Francis L.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789904017

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Handbook on Transnationalism by Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,Collins, Francis L. Pdf

Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses.

Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226340838

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The Specter of Global China by Ching Kwan Lee Pdf

Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia

Author : Stefan Berger,Sean Scalmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319662060

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The Transnational Activist by Stefan Berger,Sean Scalmer Pdf

This book provides the first historical and comparative study of the ‘transnational activist’. A range of important recent scholarship has considered the rise of global social movements, the presence of transnational networks, and the transfer or diffusion of political techniques. Much of this writing has registered the pivotal role of ‘transnational’ or ‘global’ activists. However, if the significance of the ‘transnational activist’ is now routinely acknowledged, then the history of this actor is still something of a mystery. Most commentators have associated the figure with contemporary history. Hence much of the debate around ‘transnational activism’ is ahistorical, and claims for novelty are not often based on developed historical comparison. As this volume argues, it is possible to identify the ‘transnational activist’ in earlier decades and even centuries. But when did this figure first appear? What are the historical conditions that nurtured its emergence? What are the principal moments in the development of the transnational activist? And do the transnational activists of the Internet age differ in number or nature from those of earlier years? These historical questions will be at the heart of this volume.

Author : Amnesty International,Amnesty International Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0862104920

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Amnesty International Report 2015/2016 by Amnesty International,Amnesty International Publications Pdf

Author : Stefan Berger,Ludger Pries,Manfred Wannöffel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137481924

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The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level by Stefan Berger,Ludger Pries,Manfred Wannöffel Pdf

Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation.

Author : Pitman B. Potter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774865586

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Exporting Virtue? by Pitman B. Potter Pdf

China’s rise to prosperity on the international stage has been accompanied by increased tensions with international standards of law and governance. Exporting Virtue? examines China’s internationalizing of PRC human rights policy and practice as an example of its international assertiveness, and considers the implications. China’s international human rights activism is couched in terms of virtue but manifested as authoritarianism, inviting scholars and policy makers around the world to engage critically with the issue. Exporting Virtue? investigates the challenges that China’s human rights orthodoxy poses to international norms and institutions, offering normative and institutional analysis and providing suggestions for policy response.

Author : David A. Snow,Sarah A. Soule,Hanspeter Kriesi,Holly J. McCammon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119168560

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements by David A. Snow,Sarah A. Soule,Hanspeter Kriesi,Holly J. McCammon Pdf

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion seeks to present current research on social movements in all its diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume of social science research on social movements available today. The essays address: facilitative and constraining contexts and conditions; social movement organizations, fields, and dynamics; strategies and tactics; micro-structural and social psychological dimensions of participation; consequences and outcomes; and various thematic intersections, including the intersection of social movements and social class, gender, race and ethnicity, religion, human rights, globalization, political extremism and more. Offers an illuminating guide to understanding the dynamics and operation of social movements within the modern, global world Covers a diverse range of topics in the field of social movement studies Offers original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is recommended for graduate seminars on social movement and for scholars of social movements worldwide. It is also an excellent text for college and university libraries, especially with graduate programs in the social sciences.

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199860159

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China Goes Global by David Shambaugh Pdf

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive throughout the world. In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for--a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. Today however, China's expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere--from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China's global presence: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or "soft power," its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions. But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China's global presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks the influence befitting a major world power--what he terms a "partial power." He draws on his decades of China-watching and his deep knowledge of the subject, and exploits a wide variety of previously untapped sources, to shed valuable light on China's current and future roles in world affairs.