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Labour in a Global World

Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe
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This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of countries - China, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey - it makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of the diffusion of management methods, the role of the state in employee relations, the nature of trade unionism and the impact of social structure on production relations.

Author Biography:

THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. He has written widely in the general field of economic sociology, including ownership and control, management and management ideology, class consciousness, productivity and industrial injuries. His latest book, on Turkish workers and modern industry, Global Management and Local Labour (written with Nadir Sugur) was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004. SURHAN CAM was formerly Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He is currently Research
Release date NZ
June 10th, 2005
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Illustrations
XVIII, 244 p.
Pages
244
Dimensions
140x216x19
ISBN-13
9781403939791
Product ID
5925910

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