Global economy contested
Subtitle: power and conflict across the international division of labor
By: edited by Marcus Taylor.
Contributors: Taylor, Marcus
Series: Rethinking globalizations -- 14
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780415775489; 9780415775496; 9780203927243
Subjects: Labor market; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power, conflict and the production of the global economy / Marcus Taylor; title: Globalisation and the uneven subsumption of labour under capital in Russia / Simon Clarke; title: Making the "workshop of the world" : China and the international division of labour / Étienne Cantin and Marcus Taylor; title: Restructuring and conflict in the global athletic footwear industry : Nike, Yue Yuen and labour codes of conduct / Jeroen Merk; title: Offshore production, labour standards and collective organisation in the globalizing US garment industry / Étienne Cantin; title: Corporate social responsibility and labour market discipline : contesting social reproduction in low-wage America / Ryan Foster; title: Pension fund capitalism, pension fund socialism, and dissent from investment / Paul Langley; title: Imposing social responsibility? Pension funds and the politics of development finance / Susanne Soederberg; title: Challenging labour market flexibilisation : union and community-based struggles in post-apartheid South Africa / Marlea Clarke; title: After the collapse : workers and social conflict in Argentina / Viviana Patroni; title: Globalisation, contestation and labour internationalism : a transformationalist perspective / Ronaldo Munck.