LABOUR, THE STATE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE CHALLENGE OF NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISATION

ANDREW GAMBLE,STEVE LUDLAM,ANDREW TAYLOR,STEPHEN WOOD

ISBN 10: 0719075866 / ISBN 13: 9780719075865

Published by Manchester University Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LABOUR, THE STATE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE CHALLENGE OF NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISATION
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719075866
• ISBN 13: 9780719075865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world’s working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible.

About the Author

Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh