Paperback. This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and class. The contributors explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy. This is an analysis of the work and labour processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the US and world economies as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization (Paperback)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 074251661X
ISBN 13: 9780742516618
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies-from auto to steel to agriculture-as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy.

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JERRY LEMBCKE is a member of the Department of Sociology at The College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Robert E. Parker is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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