Grounding Globalization

Name: Grounding Globalization
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Labour in the Age of Insecurity

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Antipode Book Series

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Widespread 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 - 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 re-empowering labour 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.

Release date NZ

June 6th, 2008

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Professional & Vocational

Pages

280

Series

Antipode Book Series

Dimensions

161x236x22

ISBN-13

9781405129152

Product ID

2544148

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