Grounding Globalization

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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize,awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and LaborMovements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labourinternationalism in response to the growing insecurity created byglobalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecuritythey often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign ofhope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others areattempting to globalize their own struggles. * Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism isemerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather thanassertion * Analyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia;Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and howthey dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring * Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity andexamines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements tosuch insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-nationalcorporations, and worker responses to this, connect the twoconcepts

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Edward Webster

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Geographie Geographie der Globalisierung Geography Geography of Globalization Geschichte History History Special Topics Spezialthemen Geschichte

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"Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a 'new' international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a 'grounded' understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008) "Grounding Globalization is a call for a newpolitics for the social force that labor as social movementrepresents in the era of global insecurity. Theoreticallysophisticated, empirically grounded and politically visionary, itwill be read with great interest by students and also by theorganic intellectuals of the emerging global labormovement." - Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University "This is an important, insightful, and wide-ranging bookthat tackles one of the most important issues of our time.Grounding the theoretical and political narrative in empirical casestudies, the book is an excellent account of the realities ofeconomic restructuring and the political possibilities facing theglobal workforce. It makes a major contribution to academic debateswhilst also providing important lessons for activists and policymakers." - Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
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