Screen LibraryLabour and the challenges of globalization：what prospects for transnational solidarity?
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Pluto Press University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London Ann Arbor, MI Scottsville, South Africa |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxii, 330 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0745327567 (Pluto Press paperback) 9780745327563 (Pluto Press paperback) 0745327575 (hardback) 9780745327570 (hardback) 9781869141424 (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press paperback) 1869141423 (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press paperback) |
| Index Number: | D411 |
| CLC: | D411 |
| Call Number: | D411/L125 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index. 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. |