The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies / Edition 1

by Christopher Candland, Rudra Sil

Overview

One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." As unions in late-developing countries engaged in economic liberalization, and as unions in post-socialist economies cope with the break down of command economies, these pressures have grown. The authors also reveal that globalization has weakened organized labor, yet they explain that distinct labor institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures. Globalization may even facilitate variation in the pattern of labor relations at national, local, and workplace levels, and within and across late-industrializing and post-socialist settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199241149
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/29/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age, Christopher Candland and Rudra SilPart I. Labor in late-industrializing economies2. Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico, M. Victoria Murillo3. The cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan, Christopher Candland4. Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories, Scott Martin5. Globalization, social partnership and industrial relations in Ireland, Eileen M. Doherty6. Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations, Charles WeathersPart II. Labor in post-socialist economies7. Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China, Xiaobo Lu8. Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-Market Norms, Market Institutions and the Soviet Legacy, Rudra Sil9. Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy, Jeffrey Kopstein10. Corporatist renaissance in postcommunist Central Europe?, Mitchell A. Orenstein and Lisa E. HaleConclusionInstitutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective, Rudra Sil and Christopher Candland