Global Economy Contested (eBook, ePUB)

Power and Conflict across the International Division of Labour
Redaktion: Taylor, Marcus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Emphasizing the social processes that underpin the global economy and demonstrating how the uneven effects of global economic integration impact upon actors this book also underlines the reciprocal effects that reconfigure the terrain of global accumulation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135973292
• Artikelnr.: 38253905

Autorenporträt

Marcus Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Reworking the International Division of Labour 1. Power, Conflict
and the Production of the Global Economy Marcus Taylor2. Globalisation and
the Uneven Subsumption of Labour under Capital in Russia Simon Clarke3.
Making the 'Workshop of the World': China and the International Division of
Labour Étienne Cantin and Marcus TaylorPart 2: Commodity Chains, Labour
Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Restructuring and Conflict
in the Global Athletic Footwear Industry: Nike, Yue Yuen and Labour Codes
of Conduct Jeroen Merk5. Offshore Production, Labour Standards and
Collective Organisation in the Globalizing U.S. Garment Industry Étienne
Cantin6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Labour Market Discipline:
Contesting Social Reproduction in Low-Wage America Ryan FosterPart 3:
Global Finance and Socially Responsible Investing 7. Pension Fund
Capitalism, Pension Fund Socialism, and Dissent from Investment Paul
Langley8. Imposing Social Responsibility?: Pension Funds and the New
Politics of Development Finance Susanne SoederbergPart 4: New Directions in
Labour Organising 9. Challenging Labour Market Flexibilisation: Union and
Community-Based Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa Marlea Clarke10.
After the Collapse: Workers and Social Conflict in Argentina Viviana
Patroni11. Globalisation, Contestation and Labour Internationalism: A
Transformationalist Perspective Ronaldo Munck