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No time in the history, consumption is considered to be as important as in today's world. It defines who we are, how well/perfect we perform our multiroles within the society (buying the most expensive clothes means being the best mom for instances), what symbolic meanings we attribute to our belongings, and how rich/clever/fashion conscious or innovative we are. Due to multidisciplinary and multimethod character of the concept of consumer behavior, it is appropriate to study it accordingly in order to understand the subject with its different aspects and holistically. Especially with the cultural, social, and technological changes within today's world, this issue becomes prominent. This book is a modest try for that end.
Labor and globalization. --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization --- Trade --- Social Sciences and Humanities --- Management and Economics --- Business --- Marketing
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This book, the first of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the official end of the Cold War in 1991. This period is defined by the retreat of the state and a move towards more market based economies, , followed by a State comeback with the Great Recession. These bumpy decades for labour and the prescribed labour policies changed are analysed thematically. The first volume focuses on globalization, international migration, employment, labour agency, technological change, and labour resilience. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, the political economy, and development economics. Pedro Goulart is Deputy Director of CAPP, "Excellent" research center and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa. Raul Ramos is Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona. Gianluca Ferrittu is a PhD candidate researcher at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa.
Labor and globalization. --- Labor market. --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization --- Supply and demand
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Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in developing countries, militant new labour movements are emerging. Drawing upon insights in anti-determinist Marxian perspectives, Verity Burgmann shows how working-class resistance is not futile, as protagonists of globalization often claim. She identifies eight characteristics of globalization harmful to workers and describes and analyses how they have responded collectively to these problems since 1990 and especially this century. With case studies from around the world, including Greece since 2008, she pays particular attention to new types of labour movement organization and mobilization that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations or political institutions to change. Aging and less agile manifestations of the labour movement decline while new expressions of working-class organization and mobilization arise to better battle with corporate globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, globalization, political economy, Marxism and sociology of work.
Labor movement --- Labor and globalization. --- Capitalism --- History --- Market economy --- Globalization and labor --- Labor and laboring classes --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Globalization --- Social movements --- economics --- labor movement --- politics --- labor and globalization --- labor unions and international relations --- political science
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News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins in the United States in 2007 as SEIU struggled to organize private security guards at G4S, a global security services company that is the second largest employer in the world. Failing in its bid, SEIU changed course and sought allies in other countries in which G4S operated. Its efforts resulted in wage gains, benefits increases, new union formations, and an end to management reprisals in many countries throughout the Global South, though close attention is focused on developments in South Africa and India. In this book, Jamie K. McCallum looks beyond these achievements to probe the meaning of some of the less visible aspects of the campaign. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in nine countries and historical research into labor movement trends since the late 1960's, McCallum's findings reveal several paradoxes. Although global unionism is typically concerned with creating parity and universal standards across borders, local context can both undermine and empower the intentions of global actors, creating varied and uneven results. At the same time, despite being generally regarded as weaker than their European counterparts, U.S. unions are in the process of remaking the global labor movement in their own image. McCallum suggests that changes in political economy have encouraged unions to develop new ways to organize workers. He calls these "governance struggles," strategies that seek not to win worker rights but to make new rules of engagement with capital in order to establish a different terrain on which to organize.
International labor activities. --- Labor and globalization. --- Labor movement --- Transnationalism. --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- Labor and laboring classes --- Globalization and labor --- Labor activities, International --- Labor unions --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation --- International relations --- Social movements --- Globalization --- International labor activities --- Labor and globalization --- Transnationalism --- E-books --- International movements --- Employers and workers organisations
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Over the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have not. In The New Politics of Transnational Labor, Marissa Brookes explains why this dichotomy has occurred. Using the coordination and context-appropriate (CCAP) theory, she assesses this divergence, arguing that the success of transnational alliances hinges not only on effective coordination across borders and within workers' local organizations but also on their ability to exploit vulnerabilities in global value chains, invoke national and international institutions, and mobilize networks of stakeholders in ways that threaten employers' core, material interests.Brookes uses six comparative case studies spanning four industries, five countries, and fifteen years. From dockside labor disputes in Britain and Australia to service sector campaigns in the supermarket and private security industries to campaigns aimed at luxury hotels in Southeast Asia, Brookes creates her new theoretical framework and speaks to debates in international and comparative political economy on the politics of economic globalization, the viability of private governance, and the impact of organized labor on economic inequality. From this assessment, Brookes provides a vital update to the international relations literature on non-state actors and transnational activism and shows how we can understand the unique capacities labor has as a transnational actor.
Transnationalism. --- Labor unions --- Labor and globalization. --- Labor movement --- International labor activities. --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Labor activities, International --- Political activity. --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation --- International labor activities --- Labor and globalization --- Transnationalism --- Political activity --- E-books
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Far from witnessing the beginning of the end of organized labour as a major political force, Rethinking Global Labour argues that, post-financial crisis, we are entering a new era for workers and their organizations in which they will begin to impact decisively on the new global order.
In exploring the potential futures for the world's workers, the book provides an insightful account of how globalization has created a new global working class while increasing the insecurity and precarious nature of most employment. Moving beyond categories of North and South, Munck argues that the new global class of workers will be central both to the future of globalization and to its possible alternatives. In some ways the book poses a 'return to the future' drawing parallels with the birth of the labour and democratic movements before the consolidation of nation states.
At a time of growing unease with the negative effects of economic globalization, Rethinking Global Labour offers an important assessment of global labour and its potential for organization.
Working class. --- Labor and globalization. --- Labor movement. --- Labor unions. --- Capitalism. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Industrial unions --- Labor, Organized --- Labor organizations --- Organized labor --- Trade-unions --- Unions, Labor --- Unions, Trade --- Working-men's associations --- Labor movement --- Societies --- Central labor councils --- Guilds --- Syndicalism --- Social movements --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization --- Employment --- Labor unions --- Manpower --- Work --- E-books
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Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation, with those who are most affected - typically workers - placed at the centre. To achieve this, principles of industrial democracy and transnational governance must come together to inform institutions within global supply chains. This book traces the development of 'transnational industrial democracy', using responses to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as the empirical context. A particular focus is placed on the Bangladesh Accord and the JETI Workplace Social Dialogue programme. Drawing on longitudinal field research from 2013-2020, the authors argue that the reality of modern-day supply chain capitalism has neither optimal institutional frameworks nor effective structures of industrial relations. Informed by principles of industrial democracy, the book aims at enhancing emerging forms of private transnational governance as second-best institutions.
Labor laws and legislation, International. --- Labor laws and legislation. --- Employee rights. --- Labor and globalization. --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization --- Employee rights --- Employees --- Labor rights --- Rights of employees --- Civil rights --- Labor laws and legislation --- Employee rules --- Employment law --- Industrial relations --- Labor law --- Labor standards (Labor law) --- Work --- Working class --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Social legislation --- International labor laws and legislation --- International law --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Labor --- Business logistics. --- Standards. --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower
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Labor laws and legislation --- Law and globalization --- Labor and globalization --- Globalization and labor --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Mobility, Labor --- Labor turnover --- Labor economics --- Labor market --- Industrial relations --- Labor mobility --- Work environment --- #SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Supply and demand --- Management --- Markets --- Globalization --- Economics --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Migration, Internal --- Labor supply --- Labour market --- Social law. Labour law --- Turkey
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"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity"--Provided by publisher.
Labor and globalization --- Mass media and globalization --- Mass media --- Cultural industries --- Precarious employment --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Globalization and mass media --- Globalization --- Globalization and labor --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- Creative industries --- Culture industries --- Employees --- Social aspects --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- adult entertainment. --- analysis. --- anthology. --- collaboration. --- conglomerations. --- corporate. --- creativity. --- cultural difference. --- culture. --- exploitation. --- globalization. --- herman gray. --- hollywood. --- hyderabad. --- international. --- john caldwell. --- labor conditions. --- labor. --- lagos. --- luminos. --- media production. --- media workers. --- media. --- modern world. --- political science. --- prague. --- screen media. --- tejaswini ganti. --- true story. --- university of california. --- vicki mayer. --- visual effects. --- worldwide. --- Mass media and globalization. --- Labor and globalization. --- Social aspects. --- Employees. --- Non-standard employment
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Labor and Global Justice combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice and to make clear how justice requires a rethinking of the relation between labor and global capital.
Labor and globalization --- Labor market --- Employee rights. --- Social justice. --- Industrial relations. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employee rights --- Employees --- Labor rights --- Rights of employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Globalization and labor --- Law and legislation --- Civil rights --- Supply and demand --- Management --- Equality --- Justice --- Labor laws and legislation --- Employee rules --- Markets --- Globalization --- Social justice --- Industrial relations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- E-books --- Travail et mondialisation --- Marché du travail --- Personnel --- Justice sociale --- Relations industrielles --- Aspect moral --- Droits
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