Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues

by Maurizio Atzeni

Overview

An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230303171
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/2013
Series:	Management, Work and Organisations , #2
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Maurizio Atzeni is Marie Curie Research Fellow and Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, UK
Maurizio Atzeni is Marie Curie Research Fellow and Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Labour and Collective Action
PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES -EXPLAINING THE CENTRALITY OF LABOUR WITHIN CAPITALISM
1.Marx and Marxist Views on Work and the Capitalist Labour Process; David Spencer
2. Theorising the Working Class in Twenty-First Century Global Capitalism; Beverly Silver
3. Who is the Working Class? Wage Earners and Other Labourers; Marcel Van der Linden
4. The Reproduction of Labour Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution; Silvia Federici
PART II: CLASSICAL ISSUES EXPLAINING WORKERS' RESISTANCE AND ORGANISATION
5. The Role of Trade Unions in Building Resistance: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Ralph Darlington
6. Workers Organising Workers: Grass-roots Struggle as the Past and Future of Trade Union Renewal; Sheila Cohen
7. The Workers' Control Alternative; Maurizio Atzeni
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WORKERS' ORGANISAING IN THE GLOBAL WORLD
8. Informal Labour, Factory Labour or the End of Labour? Anthropological Reflections on Labour Value; Massimiliano Mollona
9. New Forms of Labour Conflict: A Transnational Overview; Gregor Gall
10. Labour Migration and Emergent Class Conflict: Corporate Neo-liberalism, Worker Mobility, and Labour Resistance in the US; Immanuel Ness.