Globalization and patterns of labour resistance /

"The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analysed. This collection, and its companion volume The Global Economy, National States and Regulation of Labour, edited by Paul Edwards and Tony Elger, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research...

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Other Authors: Waddington, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Mansell, 1999.
Series:Employment and work relations in context series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Situating Labour within the Globalization Debate / Jeremy Waddington
  • 2. Building Union Organization at Autotransplants in Hungary / Andras Toth
  • 3. The Canadian Automobile Workers and Lean Production: Results of a Worker-Based Benchmarking Study / Wayne Lewchuk and David Robertson
  • 4. Global Dance: Factory Regimes, Asian Labour Standards and Corporate Restructuring / Rob Lambert and Anita Chan
  • 5. Workers, Unions and Change in the Global Corporation: Contemporary Experience and Future Possibilities / Stephen Frenkel and Carol Royal
  • 6. Forms of Worker Incorporation and Resistance: A Case Study of the South African Glass-Packaging Industry / Tanya Rosenthal
  • 7. Isolation or Integration? The Relationship between Local and National Union in the Context of Globalization / Gregor Murray, Christian Levesque and Nicolas Roby / [et al.]
  • 8. In Search of International Union Theory / Harvie Ramsay.