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Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic.
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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles. Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertionAnalyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts
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Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity - as a result of war, terrorism, environmental catastrophe, or insecurity in the workplace - they often turn inwards. During previous phases of global insecurity we witnessed the rise of fascism. What is distinctive about this book is that it grounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households, and their communities. It compares three towns, Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa, and shows how the global restructuring of white goods corporations is creating a profound experience of insecurity within workers, their families, and their communities. The book contains a warning. At times, workers do turn inward and become fatalistic, even xenophobic. But there are also signs of hope. The book explores the possibilities of reempowering labor through engaging space and scale in new ways. Workers are rising to the challenge of neoliberal globalization by attempting to globalize their own struggles.
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Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity - as a result of war, terrorism, environmental catastrophe, or insecurity in the workplace - they often turn inwards. During previous phases of global insecurity we witnessed the rise of fascism. What is distinctive about this book is that it grounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households, and their communities. It compares three towns, Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa, and shows how the global restructuring of white goods corporations is creating a profound experience of insecurity within workers, their families, and their communities. The book contains a warning. At times, workers do turn inward and become fatalistic, even xenophobic. But there are also signs of hope. The book explores the possibilities of reempowering labor through engaging space and scale in new ways. Workers are rising to the challenge of neoliberal globalization by attempting to globalize their own struggles.
Author Biography
Edward Webster is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rob Lambert is the Chair of Labour Studies at UWA's Business School and is the Director of the Australian Global Studies Research Centre.Andries Bezuidenhout works as a senior researcher in the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Table of Contents
Preface: A Journey of Discovery. List of Abbreviations. 1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi. Part One: Markets Against Society. 2. Manufacturing Matters. 3. The Return of Market Despotism. 4. Citizenship Matters. Part Two: Society Against Markets. 5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni. 6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon. 7. Squeezing Orange. Part Three: Society Governing the Market? 8. History Matters. 9. Grounding Labour Internationalism. 10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking. Notes. References. Index.
Review
"Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a 'new' international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a 'grounded' understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008)
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Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity as a result of war, terrorism, environmental catastrophe, or insecurity in the workplace they often turn inwards. During previous phases of global insecurity we witnessed the rise of fascism. What is distinctive about this book is that it grounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households, and their communities. It compares three towns, Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa, and shows how the global restructuring of white goods corporations is creating a profound experience of insecurity within workers, their families, and their communities. The book contains a warning. At times, workers do turn inward and become fatalistic, even xenophobic. But there are also signs of hope. The book explores the possibilities of reempowering labor through engaging space and scale in new ways. Workers are rising to the challenge of neoliberal globalization by attempting to globalize their own struggles.
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?Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a ?new? international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a ?grounded? understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008) ?Grounding Globalization is a call for a new politics for the social force that labor as social movement represents in the era of global insecurity. Theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded and politically visionary, it will be read with great interest by students and also by the organic intellectuals of the emerging global labor movement.?? Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University?This is an important, insightful, and wide-ranging book that tackles one of the most important issues of our time. Grounding the theoretical and political narrative in empirical case studies, the book is an excellent account of the realities of economic restructuring and the political possibilities facing the global workforce. It makes a major contribution to academic debates whilst also providing important lessons for activists and policy makers.?? Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
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"Grounding Globalization is a call for a new politics for the social force that labour as social movement represents in the era of global insecurity. Theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded and politically visionary, it will be read with great interest by students and also by the organic intellectuals of the emerging global labour movement." Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University "This is an important, insightful and wide-ranging book that tackles one of the most important issues of our time. Grounding the theoretical and political narrative in empirical case studies, the book is an excellent account of the realities of economic restructuring and the political possibilities facing the global workforce. It makes a major contribution to academic debates whilst also providing important lessons for activists and policy makers." Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
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"Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a 'new' international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a 'grounded' understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008)
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Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertionAnalyzes three distinct places ?Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa ? and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuringExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurityGrounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households and their communitiesHighlights the significance of ?place? and ?scale?, and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts
Details ISBN140512914X Author Andries Beziudenhout Short Title GROUNDING GLOBALIZATION Language English ISBN-10 140512914X ISBN-13 9781405129145 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 331.88 Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Subtitle Labour in the Age of Insecurity Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9781405129145 Series Number 7 UK Release Date 2008-06-06 AU Release Date 2008-06-06 NZ Release Date 2008-06-06 US Release Date 2008-06-06 Pages 288 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Series Antipode Book Series Publication Date 2008-06-06 Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781405129152 Audience Professional & Vocational Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this
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