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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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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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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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Sociology of work --- International division of labor --- Work --- Labor --- Labor and globalization --- Industrial relations --- Labor and globalization. --- International division of labor. --- Work. --- Labor. --- Industrial relations. --- Division of labor. --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Labor, Division of --- Economic specialization --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employees --- Management --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Working class --- Industry (Psychology) --- Method of work --- Work, Method of --- Human behavior --- Occupations --- Work-life balance --- International specialization --- Division of labor --- International economic relations --- Comparative advantage (International trade) --- Globalization and labor --- Globalization

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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