Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870Cambridge University Press, 21 abr 2003 - 238 páginas Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century. |
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Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 Beverly J. Silver Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
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argued auto automobile industry autoworkers Brazil capital capitalist Chapter conflict core countries crisis of labor decades economic employers employment expansion factory financial fix Fordist Giovanni Arrighi global hegemony historical impact investment Justice for Janitors labor force labor internationalism labor militancy labor movements labor power labor unrest mentions labor unrest waves labor-capital lean production major waves marketplace bargaining power mass production mentions of labor mobilization Moreover multinational Nevertheless nineteenth century organization patterning of labor phase postwar processes product cycle product fixes profitability proletarian protest repression resistance Second World Second World War shift social contracts South Africa spatial fixes strategy struggles teachers technological fixes textile industry textile workers Third World tion trade unions transformations transportation twentieth century U.S. South United United Kingdom wages waves of labor Western Europe WLG database working-class formation workplace bargaining power World Labor Group world labor unrest world-scale