Labour and the Challenges of Globalization - What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity - A Bieler, I Lindberg & D Pillay (Pluto Press) - 2008 [0745327575]

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"This project was initiated by Samir Amin and the World Forum for Alternatives (http://www.forumdesalternatives.org/?lang=EN). It is one of two related projects dealing with the issue of labour and globalization, while the other project covers peasant movements and their position in the global economy."


Table of contents:

Foreword: rebuilding the unity of the ‘labour front’
;; ;; ;; Samir Amin

1 The future of the global working class:
;; an introduction
;; Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay

2 The contested politics of gender and irregular
;; employment: revitalizing the South Korean
;; democratic labour movement
;; Jennifer Jihye Chun

3 Globalization and the informalization of labour:
;; the case of South Africa
;; Devan Pillay

4 Globalization and labour in India: emerging
;; challenges and responses
;; Praveen Jha

5 How China’s migrant labourers are becoming
;; the new proletariat
;; Wen Tiejun

6 The globalization of capital and its impact on the
;; world of formal and informal work: challenges
;; for and responses from Argentine unions
;; Isabel Rauber

7 Neoliberal policies, labour market restructuring
;; and social exclusion: Brazil’s working-class response
;; Kjeld Jakobsen and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa

8 The impact of globalization on trade unions:
;; the situation in Japan
;; Wakana Shutô and Mac Urata

9 Challenges facing the Canadian labour movement
;; in the context of globalization, unemployment and
;; the casualization of labour
;; Geoff Bickerton and Jane Stinson

10 German trade unions between neoliberal
;; ;; restructuring, social partnership and internationalism
;; ;; Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten

11 Swedish unions and globalization: labour
;; ;; strategies in a changing global order
;; ;; Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg

12 Building alliances between formal and informal
;; ;; workers: experiences from Africa
;; ;; Ilda Lindell

13 European integration: a strategic level for trade
;; ;; union resistance to neoliberal restructuring and
;; ;; for the promotion of political alternatives?
;; ;; Andreas Bieler and Thorsten Schulten

14 A trade union internationalism for the 21st century:
;; ;; meeting the challenges from above, below and
;; ;; beyond
;; ;; Peter Waterman

15 What future strategy for the global working class?
;; ;; The need for a new historical subject
;; ;; Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay