Labour worldwide in the era of globalization

Description

Internationally the trade union movement is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually reinforcing processes - the ongoing world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neoliberalism; the collapse of communism and radical nationalism; the decline of the social-democratic or labour tradition - and by a globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned. The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labour to recover or reinvent itself. They see this in terms of a labour response to the waves of energy coming from the new global social movements (women, ecology, human rights/democracy, and so on).

Subjects

Series Statement

• International political economy series

Other Editions

• Labour worldwide in the era of globalization: alternative union models in the new world orderMacmillan1999-01-01
• Labour Worldwide in the Era of GlobalizationPaperbackPalgrave Macmillan1999-01-01
• Labour worldwide in the era of globalizationSt. Martin's Press1999-01-01
• Labour Worldwide in the Era of GlobalizationHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan1999-02-15
• Labour Worldwide in the Era of GlobalizationPalgrave Macmillan2016-01-01