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Informationen zum Autor Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008). Ingemar Lindberg is a former trade unionist and senior researcher at the Swedish think-tank Agora. He is the co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008). Devan Pillay , a former trade unionist, is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Pluto, 2008). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Critically examines the responses of the working classes to the challenges of the neoliberal global economy.
