Labour and the challenges of globalization [[electronic resource] ] : what prospects for transnational solidarity? / / edited by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782654203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Ann Arbor, MI, : Pluto Press; Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1-78371-920-6; 1-84964-380-6; 1-281-87884-7; 9786611878849; 1-4356-9090-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): BielerAndreas <1967->; LindbergIngemar <1938->; PillayDevan
• Disciplina: 331.88
• Soggetti: Globalization; Industrial relations; Informal sector (Economics); International labor activities; Labor movement; Labor unions; Neoliberalism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword : rebuilding the unity of the "labour front" / Samir Amin -- The future of the global working class : an introduction / Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay -- The contested politics of gender and irregular employment : revitalizing the South Korean democratic labour movement / Jennifer Jihye Chun -- Globalization and the informalization of labour : the case of South Africa / Devan Pillay -- Globalization and labour in India : emerging challenges and responses / Praveen Jha -- How China's migrant labourers are becoming the new ; proletariat / Wen Tiejun -- The globalization of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work : challenges for and responses from Argentine unions / Isabel Rauber -- Neoliberal policies, labour market restructuring and social exclusion : Brazil's working-class response / Kjeld Jakobsen and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa -- The impact of globalization on trade unions : the situation in Japan / Wakana Shutô and Mac Urata -- Challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the context of globalization, unemployment and the casualization of labour / Geoff Bickerton and Jane Stinson -- German trade unions between neoliberal restructuring, social partnership and internationalism / Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten -- Swedish unions and globalization : labour strategies in a changing global order / Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg -- Building alliances between formal and informal workers : experiences from Africa / Ilda Lindell -- European integration : a strategic level for trade union resistance to neoliberal restructuring and for the promotion of political alternatives? / Andreas Bieler and Thorsten Schulten -- A trade union internationalism for the 21st century : meeting the challenges from above, below and beyond / Peter Waterman -- What future strategy for the global working class? : the need for a new historical subject / Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay.