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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Grounding globalization. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008 (DLC) 2007049846 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eddie Webster; Robert Lambert; Andries Bezuidenhout |
ISBN: | 9781405129145 140512914X 9781405129152 1405129158 |
OCLC Number: | 489040069 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 261 p.) illustrations |
Contents: | Preface: A Journey of Discovery. List of Abbreviations. 1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi. Part One: Markets Against Society. 2. Manufacturing Matters. 3. The Return of Market Despotism. 4. Citizenship Matters. Part Two: Society Against Markets. 5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni. 6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon. 7. Squeezing Orange. Part Three: Society Governing the Market? 8. History Matters. 9. Grounding Labour Internationalism. 10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking. Notes. References. Index. |
Responsibility: | Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout |
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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) Read more...
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