Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance

The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour edited by by Paul Edwards and Tony Elger, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research on the relationship between the globalization of production and the regulation of labour. It examines the relations between specific pattens of labour control (production regimes) and approaches to national labour (regulatory regimes). The contributors assess the nature and form of labour resistance and accommodation across a range of manufacturing industries in different national contexts.

Waddinton, Jeremy

Situating Labour within the globalization debate, Jeremy Waddington; building union organization at autotransplants in Hungary, Andras Toth; the Canadian automobile workers and lean production, Wayne Lewchuk; global dance - factory regimes, Asian labour standards and corporate restructuring, Rob Lambert; workers, unions and change in the global corporation, Stephen Frenkel, Carol Royal; forms of worker incorporation and resistance - a case study of the South African glass packaging industry, Tanya Rosenthal; isolation or integration? the relationship between local and national unions in the context of globalization, Gregor Murray et al; in search of international union theory, Harvie Ramsay.