Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation

Herausgeber: Gamble, Andrew; Wood, Stephen; Taylor, Andrew; Ludlam, Steve

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Produktbeschreibung

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075865
• ISBN-10: 0719075866
• Artikelnr.: 22712019

Autorenporträt

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield Andrew Taylor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield Stephen Wood is Professor of Work Psychology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of
neo-liberal globalisation - Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam, Andrew J. Taylor
and Stephen Wood Theory 2. The category of labour: its continued relevance
in social theory - David Coates 3. Labour in the twenty first century:
state strategies - Vivien A. Schmidt THE GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CHALLENGE 4.
Fractured capacity in regulating international labour standards:the perils
of voluntary self-regulation and competition for moral authority - Austina
J. Reed and Charlotte Yates 5. Creating a labour dispensation for the 21st
century: the case of South Africa - Darcy Du Toit 6. Liberalisation and
trade unionism in Mozambique - Beata Mtyingizana 7. Relations between
capital and labour in Turkey: from neoliberalism to democratisation - Nazim
Güveloglu 8. Strange company? organised labour and the politics of
liberalisation in India - Michael Gillan PATTERNS OF RESISTENCE ACROSS THE
GLOBE 9. Problems of social movement Unionism - Bill Dunn 10. Self
regulating markets, restructuring and the new labour internationalism - Rob
Lambert 11. Recasting the story of David and Goliath in the global economy
- Anibel Ferus-Comelo 12. Sintraemcali and social movement unionism: trade
union resistance to neo-liberal globalisation in Colombia - Mario Novelli
13. Canalising resistance: historical continuities and contrasts of
'alter-globalist' movements at the European Social Forums - Andreas Bieler
and Adam Morton