Louise Amoore

Globalisation contested

An international political economy of work

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expressed in the restructuring of work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085703
• ISBN-10: 0719085705
• Artikelnr.: 33263186

Autorenporträt

Louise Amoore is Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Globalisation, restructuring, and the flexibility discourse
2. International political economy and global social change 3. Producing
hyper-flexibility: the restructuring of work in Britain 4. Producing
flexi-corporatism: the restructuring of work in Germany 5. The 'contested
firm': the restructuring of production and work in the international
political economy 6. Globalisation at work: unheard voices and invisible
agency Conclusion: An international political economy of work