Workers In The Global Economy
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Author | : Richard P. Appelbaum |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 150170334X |
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains—such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads—generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform.
Author | : Kathryn Ward |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501717081 |
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Author | : Gregory DeFreitas |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782541783 |
'. . . the volume is successful in reaching an always difficult equilibrium between scientific soundness, on the one hand, and fluency, on the other hand. . . the book is a highly enjoyable and engaging read also for a general audience interested in understanding the new dimensions of what has become a persistent affliction of many households in advanced economies.' - Education Economics
Author | : Sanford M. Jacoby |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Comparative industrial relations |
ISBN | : 0195089049 |
The international economy is a key factor shaping relations between employers, unions and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. This study reports how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make
Author | : Kenneth F. Scheve |
Publisher | : Peterson Institute |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780881322958 |
Using evidence from public opinion polls Scheve (political science, Yale U.) and Slaughter (economics, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) discuss the attitudes of American workers towards globalization, concluding that there is a strong division in attitude based on education and skill levels, with less-skilled workers seeing globalization as a threat. The authors delineate globalization and their analysis in purely economic terms as they discuss the public opinion evidence on US opposition to globalization, various economic models to interpret the differences in opinion of the surveys, the larger context of recent US labor-market pressures and how these affect worker preferences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Supriya Routh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317445252 |
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic. Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.
Author | : Robert J. Flanagan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-07-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190294280 |
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and a growing research literature on globalization and labor conditions, the book finds that trade, migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions.
Author | : International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2021-07-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1513575910 |
The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.
Author | : Emmanuel D. Farjoun |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030933210 |
This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and develops a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. By applying the framework to real-world data, the authors offer new insights into the dynamics of growth, wages, and accumulation in capitalist development around the globe. The book demonstrates that a probabilistic political economy based on labor inputs enables us to describe central organizing principles in modern capitalism. Starting from a few basic assumptions, it shows that the working time of employees is the main regulating variable for determining strict numerical limits on the rate of economic growth, the range of wages, and the pace of accumulation under the present global economic system. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how the capitalist mode of production works and its inherent limitations; in particular, it will be useful to scholars and students of Marxian economics. “Emmanuel Farjoun and Moshé Machover, follow up their pathbreaking work on the application of statistical physics methods to political economy in this book with David Zachariah, in which they develop methods for making educated and structured estimates of stylized facts applicable to capitalist economies. There’s a lot for economists and anyone interested in the political economy of capitalism to learn from their reasoning on these issues, including their novel and challenging suggestion of bounds on the rates of increase of use-value productivity of labor, and on the range of variation of the wage share.” Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
Author | : Ethan B. Kapstein |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Economic forecasting |
ISBN | : 9780393047547 |
In this volume, Ethan Kapstein makes the essential point that globalization has produced not just winners but losers as well, and that we ignore at our peril the gap between the rich and the poor that characterizes the global economy.