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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield Andrew Taylor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield Stephen Wood is Professor of Work Psychology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield Klappentext With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible. Zusammenfassung This book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations! and new patterns of resistance in strategic national and international alliances of unions with other social movements. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalisation - Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam, Andrew J. Taylor and Stephen Wood Theory2. The category of labour: its continued relevance in social theory - David Coates3. Labour in the twenty first century: state strategies - Vivien A. SchmidtTHE GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CHALLENGE4. Fractured capacity in regulating international labour standards:the perils of voluntary self-regulation and competition for moral authority - Austina J. Reed and Charlotte Yates5. Creating a labour dispensation for the 21st century: the case of South Africa - Darcy Du Toit 6. Liberalisation and trade unionism in Mozambique - Beata Mtyingizana7. Relations between capital and labour in Turkey: from neoliberalism to democratisation - Nazim Güveloglu8. Strange company? organised labour and the politics of liberalisation in India - Michael GillanPATTERNS OF RESISTENCE ACROSS THE GLOBE9. Problems of social movement Unionism - Bill Dunn 10. Self regulating markets, restructuring and the new labour internationalism - Rob Lambert11. Recasting the story of David and Goliath in the global economy - Anibel Ferus-Comelo12. Sintraemcali and social movement unionism: trade union resistance to neo-liberal globalisation in Colombia - Mario Novelli13. Canalising resistance: historical continuities and contrasts of 'alter-globalist' movements at the European Social Forums - Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton...
