Global restructuring and the power of labour

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    • Dunn, Bill

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Global restructuring and the power of labour

Bill Dunn

(International political economy series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-236) and index

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Description

Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural explanations of labour's situation. It redirects attention towards labour's political defeats and own institutional shortcomings.

Table of Contents

PART I: UNDERSTANDINGS OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LABOUR Introduction Globalization, Labour and the State Capital Mobility and the Spatial Dispersal of Labour Post-Fordism and the Social Dispersal of Labour PART II: AN INTER-INDUSTRY COMPARISON OF RESTRUCTURING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LABOUR Automobiles Construction Semiconductors Finance Assessing Global Restructuring and Labour PART II: CONCLUSIONS Towards a Strategic Research Agenda

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