Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour

by Bill Dunn

Overview

Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural explanations of labour's situation. It redirects attention towards labour's political defeats and own institutional shortcomings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403932617
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/28/2004
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

BILL DUNN has taught International Political Economy at the University of Bristol and Sociology the University of the West of England where he was also awarded his PhD. He has had work published on capital mobility and the experiences of transport and communications workers and on international construction contracting.

Table of Contents

PART I: UNDERSTANDINGS OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LABOUR Introduction Globalization, Labour and the State Capital Mobility and the Spatial Dispersal of Labour Post-Fordism and the Social Dispersal of Labour PART II: AN INTER-INDUSTRY COMPARISON OF RESTRUCTURING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LABOUR Automobiles Construction Semiconductors Finance Assessing Global Restructuring and Labour PART II: CONCLUSIONS Towards a Strategic Research Agenda