The Politics of Labor in a Global Age
Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 September 2001
- ISBN 9780199241149
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 233x157x19 mm
- Weight 538 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 tables and 2 charts 0
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Short description:
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age analyses and compares changing patterns of labour relations in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on the distinctive responses to common economic pressures associated with globalization as late-developing economies engage in economic liberalization and post-socialist economies cope with the dismantling of command economies.
MoreLong description:
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age is one of the first works to analyse and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on labor relations at national, local, and workplace levels, as economic and politicla actors cope with the similar challenges associated with economic adjustment measures and the impact of 'globalization'. The authors reveal that while globalization has threatened the position of organized labor and prompted business and state elites to accommodate greater labor market flexibility, the legacies of past institutions remain evident in destinctive trends in labor politics within and across late-industrializing and post-socialist settings. The comparisons suggest that globalization is best understood not as a source of covergence but as a set of common pressures that are mediated by specific historical inheritances, that spur varied responses on the part of industrial relations actors, and that facilitate quite diverse institutional outcomes.
... an interesting set of papers ... manages to maintain a strong degree of unity throughout ... Politically and empirically, this is a very useful book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age
Part I. Labor in late-industrializing economies
Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico
The cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan
Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories
Globalization, social partnership and industrial relations in Ireland
Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations
Part II. Labor in post-socialist economies
Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China
Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-Market Norms, Market Institutions and the Soviet Legacy
Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy
Corporatist renaissance in postcommunist Central Europe?
Conclusion
Institutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective
