Grounding Globalization

Labour in the Age of Insecurity

By: Edward Webster, Rob Lambert, Andries Beziudenhout

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Paperback | 13 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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<b>*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*</b> <p> 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 they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles. <ul> <li>Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion <li>Analyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring <li>Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts </ul>

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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)

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