Workers Unions And Global Capitalism

Author : Rohini Hensman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231519564

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Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism by Rohini Hensman Pdf

While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries, especially for women, globalization has formed a basis for stronger workers' rights, even in remote sites of production. Using India's labor movement as a model, Rohini Hensman charts the successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, of the struggle for workers' rights and organization in a rich and varied nation. As Indian products gain wider acceptance in global markets, the disparities in employment conditions and union rights between such regions as the European Union and India's vast informal sector are exposed, raising the issue of globalization's implications for labor. Hensman's study examines the unique pattern of "employees' unionism," which emerged in Bombay in the 1950s, before considering union responses to recent developments, especially the drive to form a national federation of independent unions. A key issue is how far unions can resist protectionist impulses and press for stronger global standards, along with the mechanisms to enforce them. After thoroughly unpacking this example, Hensman zooms out to trace the parameters of a global labor agenda, calling for a revival of trade unionism, the elimination of informal labor, and reductions in military spending to favor funding for comprehensive welfare and social security systems.

Author : Workers League (U.S.)
Publisher : Mehring Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0929087682

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The Globalization of Capitalist Production & the International Tasks of the Working Class by Workers League (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood,Peter Meiksins,Michael D. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106015002758

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Rising from the Ashes? by Ellen Meiksins Wood,Peter Meiksins,Michael D. Yates Pdf

New questions have jumped to the forefront for labor movements all over the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizings and government cutbacks? Can unions revive their ranks and reignite the public imagination? Is labor rising from the ashes? Rising from the Ashes? sets these crucial questions in global context, connecting and contrasting new developments in the United States to recent trends abroad - from Mexico to Asia, and from Canada to Eastern Europe.

Author : Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205138

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Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism by Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten Pdf

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Chun-Yi Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351751407

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Chinese Labour in the Global Economy by Andreas Bieler,Chun-Yi Lee Pdf

Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back. Set against the background of China’s integration into the global economy along uneven and combined development lines, this volume explores new forms of resistance by Chinese workers, be it through the state trade union All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) or through informal labour NGOs. It also analyses the links between Chinese formal and informal labour organisations, with labour organisations outside China. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1788211065

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Rethinking Global Labour by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 076197217X

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Spaces of Work by Noel Castree Pdf

Spaces of Work is an accessible examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors critically assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with other more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance. Each chapter presents examples of labour practice from around the world, and across multiple sectors of work, not just Western manufacturing. In addition, the book features: · further reading section with key questions · glossary of key terms · short summaries of the main theoretical approaches · guide to further learning resouces Spaces of Work is a key book for all social scientists interested in the contemporary state of labour, and the scope for progressive change within the capitalist system. Students of human geography, sociology, international political economy, economics and cultural studies will all find this an invaluable text.

Author : Jan Breman,Arvind N. Das
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789053564509

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Down and Out by Jan Breman,Arvind N. Das Pdf

On the condition of workers in the informal sector like textile, diamond, sugar, brick making and construction in and around Surat, Gujarat.

Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842770713

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Globalisation and Labour by Ronaldo Munck Pdf

Intellectual fashion currently focuses on us as consumers, but the world of production and services still needs us as workers. While globalisation has, in part, been driven over the past two decades by the transnational corporations' search for cheap labour in new regions of the South, scholarly research and the mass media have paid remarkably little attention to the consequent changes that are happening in the world of work. This book is the first to deal comprehensively and analytically with labour's response to globalisation. It provides a critical overview of the main challenges facing workers and trade unions worldwide. Its author argues that what may be described as the national period in labour history is decisively over. Now the labour movement is itself acting increasingly in a transnational manner. This holds out the hope of its playing a major role in the social regulation of a global economic system which is largely out of control. The author explains how globalisation is foisting flexibilisation and feminisation on working people, but in the process also making them conscious of their transnational links. The 'old' internationalism of the trade union movement is now showing signs of developing into a 'new' internationalism where workers develop a sense of common interest and new ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Drawing his evidence from what is happening to workers and trade unions in a wide range of countries in both the industrialized North and the developing South, Professor Ronaldo Munck suggests that we may be on the brink of a new version of what Karl Polanyi, many years ago, strikingly called 'the great transformation'. The implications for workers, trade unions and their transnational corporate employers could be profound.

Author : Dimitris Stevis,Terry Boswell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742537854

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Globalization and Labor by Dimitris Stevis,Terry Boswell Pdf

Unions have long been a central force in the democratization of national and global governance, and this timely book examines the role of labor in fighting for a more democratic and equitable world. In a clear and compelling narrative, Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell explore the past accomplishments and the formidable challenges still facing global union politics. Outlining the contradictions of globalization and global governance, they assess the implications for global union politics since its inception in the nineteenth century. The authors place this key social movement in a political economy framework as they argue that social movements can be fruitfully compared based on their emphases on egalitarianism and internationalism. Applying these concepts to global union politics across time, the authors consider whether global union politics has become more active and more influential or has failed to rise to the challenge of global capitalism. All readers interested in global organizations, governance, and social movements will find this deeply informed work an essential resource.

Author : Lee H. Adler,Maite Tapia,Lowell Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801470233

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Mobilizing against Inequality by Lee H. Adler,Maite Tapia,Lowell Turner Pdf

Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States. Their research revealed both formidable challenges and inspiring examples of immigrant mobilization that often took shape as innovative social countermovements. Using case studies from a carwash organizing campaign in the United States, a sans papiers movement in France, Justice for Cleaners in the United Kingdom, and integration approaches by the Metalworkers Union in Germany, among others, the authors look at the strategies of unions toward immigrants from a comparative perspective. Although organizers face a different set of obstacles in each country, this book points to common strategies that offer promise for a more dynamic model of unionism is the global North. Visit the website for the book, which features literature reviews, full case studies, updates, and links to related publications at www.mobilizing-against-inequality.info.

Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1786806460

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Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle by Robert Ovetz Pdf

Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1786806444

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Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle by Robert Ovetz Pdf

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below.0By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organisational forms and objectives. These workers' inquiries, from call centre workers to teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energising unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organisations.0In one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers' movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do.

Author : George Comninel,Marcello Musto,Victor Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317487975

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The International after 150 Years by George Comninel,Marcello Musto,Victor Wallis Pdf

The International Workingmen’s Association was the prototype of all organizations of the Labour movement and the 150th anniversary of its birth (1864-2014) offers an important opportunity to rediscover its history and learn from its legacy. The International helped workers to grasp that the emancipation of labour could not be won in a single country but was a global objective. It also spread an awareness in their ranks that they had to achieve the goal themselves, through their own capacity for organization, rather than by delegating it to some other force; and that it was essential to overcome the capitalist system itself, since improvements within it, though necessary to pursue, would not eliminate exploitation and social injustice. This book reconsider the main issues broached or advanced by the International – such as labor rights, critiques of capitalism and the search for international solidarity – in light of present-day concerns. With the recent crisis of capitalism, that has sharpened more than before the division between capital and labour, the political legacy of the organization founded in London in 1864 has regained profound relevance, and its lessons are today more timely than ever. This book was published as a special issue of Socialism and Democracy.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Adam David Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108479103

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Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis by Andreas Bieler,Adam David Morton Pdf

Addresses the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, global crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and world-ecology to appeal to scholars and students alike.