Author : Chris King-chi Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415625459
China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour. In recent years however there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, exploring how the pattern of labour conflict has changed over time.
Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones. The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers. The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.
Author : Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800888058
Actors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.
Author : Jon Cruddas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509540806
Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and agency of the labour interest. This timely book is a brilliant intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
Author : Daniel Letwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807846780
This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to colla
Author : Labour Party (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Tim Pringle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136826572
This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions, and demonstrates that labour unrest is the principal driving force behind trade union reform in China.
Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290147831
This collection of papers examines key trends in the internationalisation of employment, drawing on the proceedings of an ILO conference held in Annecy, France in April 2005. The papers focus on three related issues: the impacts of trade and investment abroad, including the offshoring of production of goods and services, and effects on the winners and losers in terms of employment; adjustment methods for coping with the short and medium term problems related to the globalisation of employment; and the importance of international instruments to help ensure a level playing field in trade and promote development, drawing on established rights and international labour standards.
Author : Jeff Kenner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788973267
This discerning book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of the legal and social policy challenges posed by the spread of different forms of precarious work in Europe, with various social models in force and a growing ‘gig economy’ workforce. It not only considers the theoretical foundations of the concept of precarious work, but also offers invaluable insight into the potential methods of addressing this phenomenon through labour regulation and case law at EU and national level.
Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136905804
This volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector.
