An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.
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An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.
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Introduction: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Labour and Collective Action
PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES -EXPLAINING THE CENTRALITY OF LABOUR WITHIN CAPITALISM
1.Marx and Marxist Views on Work and the Capitalist Labour Process; David Spencer
2. Theorising the Working Class in Twenty-First Century Global Capitalism; Beverly Silver
3. Who is the Working Class? Wage Earners and Other Labourers; Marcel Van der Linden
4. The Reproduction of Labour Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution; Silvia Federici
PART II: CLASSICAL ISSUES EXPLAINING WORKERS' RESISTANCE AND ORGANISATION
5. The Role of Trade Unions in Building Resistance: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Ralph Darlington
6. Workers Organising Workers: Grass-roots Struggle as the Past and Future of Trade Union Renewal; Sheila Cohen
7. The Workers' Control Alternative; Maurizio Atzeni
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WORKERS' ORGANISAING IN THE GLOBAL WORLD
8. Informal Labour, Factory Labour or the End of Labour? Anthropological Reflections on Labour Value; Massimiliano Mollona
9. New Forms of Labour Conflict: A Transnational Overview; Gregor Gall
10. Labour Migration and Emergent Class Conflict: Corporate Neo-liberalism, Worker Mobility, and Labour Resistance in the US; Immanuel Ness.

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Multidisciplinary and international in focus

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780230303171
Publisert
2013-11-25
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
Lower undergraduate, U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Maurizio Atzeni is Marie Curie Research Fellow and Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, UK