Labour and the challenges of globalization
Subtitle: what prospects for transnational solidarity?
By: edited by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay.
Contributors: Bieler, Andreas, 1967-; Lindberg, Ingemar, 1938-; Pillay, Devan.
Publisher: Pluto Press; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Ann Arbor, MI; Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780745327563; 9780745327570; 9781869141424
Subjects: International labor activities; Labor unions; Labor movement; Industrial relations; Globalization; Neoliberalism; Informal sector (Economics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : rebuilding the unity of the "labour front" / Samir Amin; title: The future of the global working class : an introduction / Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay; title: The contested politics of gender and irregular employment : revitalizing the South Korean democratic labour movement / Jennifer Jihye Chun; title: Globalization and the informalization of labour : the case of South Africa / Devan Pillay; title: Globalization and labour in India : emerging challenges and responses / Praveen Jha; title: How China's migrant labourers are becoming the new proletariat / Wen Tiejun; title: The globalization of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work : challenges for and responses from Argentine unions / Isabel Rauber; title: Neoliberal policies, labour market restructuring and social exclusion : Brazil's working-class response / Kjeld Jakobsen and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa; title: The impact of globalization on trade unions : the situation in Japan / Wakana Shutô and Mac Urata; title: Challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the context of globalization, unemployment and the casualization of labour / Geoff Bickerton and Jane Stinson; title: German trade unions between neoliberal restructuring, social partnership and internationalism / Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten; title: Swedish unions and globalization : labour strategies in a changing global order / Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg; title: Building alliances between formal and informal workers : experiences from Africa / Ilda Lindell; title: European integration : a strategic level for trade union resistance to neoliberal restructuring and for the promotion of political alternatives? / Andreas Bieler and Thorsten Schulten; title: A trade union internationalism for the 21st century : meeting the challenges from above, below and beyond / Peter Waterman; title: What future strategy for the global working class? : the need for a new historical subject / Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay.