Labour and the Challenges of Globalization : What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity?

Bieler, Andreas (EDT); Lindberg, Ingemar (EDT); Pillay, Devan (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0745327567 / ISBN 13: 9780745327563

Published by Pluto Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Labour and the Challenges of Globalization : What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity?
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745327567
• ISBN 13: 9780745327563
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book examines the main challenges facing the world labor force and possible responses from trade unions.



The working classes across the world are feeling the effects of globalization and the race to the bottom that it encourages. Core jobs for workers in the developed world are being outsourced to countries where pay and conditions are terrible and union membership is often forbidden. Much of the work of the world economy is now taking place in a burgeoning informal sector, making worldwide organization of labor very difficult.



Case studies from 11 different countries, including China, Germany, Canada and South Africa, illustrate what is happening and show how workers and trade unions can successfully adapt to the neoliberal world.

About the Author

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Ingemar Lindberg, a former trade unionist, is a senior researcher at the Swedish think-tank Agora.Devan Pillay, a former trade unionist, is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.