Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since

Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.

Country	USA
Author	Beverly J. Silver
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Cambridge University Press
EAN	9780521520775
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
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ISBN	0521520770
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	260
PublicationDate	2003-04-21
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Studio	Cambridge University Press
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Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)