Forces of Labor: Worker's Movements and Globalization Since 1870

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This 2003 book analyzes the global dynamics of labor movements! introducing a major new database on labor unrest events worldwide from 1870 to 1996. Its purpose is to assess the contemporary crisis of labor movements! but it argues that labor movements need to be studied in a longer historical and wider geographical framework. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Labor movements and capital mobility; 3. Labor movements and product cycles; 4. Labor movements and world politics; 5. Contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspectives; Appendices; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly J. Silver, Beverly J. (The Johns Hopkins University) Silver
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2003
• EAN: 9780521520775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52077-5
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education