Globalization and work
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Globalization and work
Polity Press, 2013
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This engaging book offers a lively and rigorous synthesis of the varied interconnections between work and globalization. Drawing on relevant sociological insights, and based on extensive, up-to-date research studies of work and employment, it brings together for the first time in a single volume a range of key topics, including: consumption, work and identity in a globalizing world; work and employment in multinationals; international labour standards; trade unions, labour movements and labour conflict under globalization; gender and inequality; migrant labour; transnational mobility; and the organization of work in global factories.
Globalization and Work challenges conceptions of globalization as a project orchestrated by governments, multinational companies and international agencies. The authors highlight the importance of integrating a grounded, bottom-up perspective which recognizes that globalization is not just something that happens to working people, thereby revealing the fascinating extent to which workers actively engage in producing globalization. Throughout, the book contains a number of features to deepen understanding, including case study boxes of topical examples from across the globe.
Globalization and Work is an essential new book for anyone interested in globalization, the sociology of work and comparative employment relations, especially undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on these and related topics.
Table of Contents
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List of tables and figures
Preface: About this book
Chapter 1. Globalization and work: an introduction
Chapter 2. Consumption, work and identity in a globalizing world
Chapter 3. Multinationals, work and employment in the global economy
Chapter 4. Globalization and the regulation of international labour standards
Chapter 5. Globalization, labour and social movements
Chapter 6. Work and the management of labour in 'global factories'
Chapter 7. Globalization and migrant labour
Chapter 8. Globalization and transnational mobility
Chapter 9. Work, gender and intersectional inequalities
Chapter 10. Globalization and labour conflict
Chapter 11. Conclusion
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