Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century / Verity Burgmann.

Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions ar...

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Main Author: Burgmann, Verity. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge advances in international political economy ; 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Working-class agency and labour movement action
  • 2. Confronting post-Fordist production
  • 3. Reversing decline by going online?
  • 4. Subverting the shift in production
  • 5. Countering capital mobility
  • 6. Confounding workforce fragmentation
  • 7. Opposing unemployment and precarity
  • 8. Protecting the public
  • 9. Raging against the rich.