Author: Yaw A. Debrah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135311293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and individual employees as a result of globalization and the intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.
Work and Employment in a Globalized Era
Author: Yaw A. Debrah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135311293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and individual employees as a result of globalization and the intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135311293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and individual employees as a result of globalization and the intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.
Global Histories of Work
Author: Andreas Eckert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110434466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110434466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.
The End of Work
Author: Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the technological revolution and understood its implications for global employment: Jeremy Rifkin. The End of Workis Jeremy Rifkin's most influential and important book. Now nearly ten years old, it has been updated for a new, post-New Economy era. Statistics and figures have been revised to take new trends into account. Rifkin offers a tough, compelling critique of the flaws in the techniques the government uses to compile employment statistics. The End of Workis the book our candidates and our country need to understand the employment challenges-and the hopes-facing us in the century ahead.
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the technological revolution and understood its implications for global employment: Jeremy Rifkin. The End of Workis Jeremy Rifkin's most influential and important book. Now nearly ten years old, it has been updated for a new, post-New Economy era. Statistics and figures have been revised to take new trends into account. Rifkin offers a tough, compelling critique of the flaws in the techniques the government uses to compile employment statistics. The End of Workis the book our candidates and our country need to understand the employment challenges-and the hopes-facing us in the century ahead.
Servants of Globalization
Author: Rhacel Parreñas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804796181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families. With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers. Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804796181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families. With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers. Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.
Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World
Author: Toker Dereli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319043498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization. It describes contemporary developments and ways in which labor relations systems are evolving around the world and in Turkey. Authors combine the latest information with in-depth insights on a variety of issues. The implications of international trade for employment, the dichotomy between competitiveness and meeting international labor standards, the multinationals’ effects on labor relations, social policy implications of American higher education, the search for the right regulatory balance between labor flexibility and job security, challenges faced in establishing temporary work agencies, the role of skills training and providing women with micro credits to overcome informal employment problems are just some of the issues analyzed in this book. Thus, the contributions from Turkish and international institutions offer a valuable overview of the ongoing discussions in the field of labor economics and employment relations.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319043498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization. It describes contemporary developments and ways in which labor relations systems are evolving around the world and in Turkey. Authors combine the latest information with in-depth insights on a variety of issues. The implications of international trade for employment, the dichotomy between competitiveness and meeting international labor standards, the multinationals’ effects on labor relations, social policy implications of American higher education, the search for the right regulatory balance between labor flexibility and job security, challenges faced in establishing temporary work agencies, the role of skills training and providing women with micro credits to overcome informal employment problems are just some of the issues analyzed in this book. Thus, the contributions from Turkish and international institutions offer a valuable overview of the ongoing discussions in the field of labor economics and employment relations.
Airline Labor Relations in the Global Era
Author: Peter Cappelli
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875463445
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Emerging from a 1993 conference on airline labor relations convened by the National Mediation Board, this volume provides a comprehensive discussion of the problems facing the airline industry, the significance of globalization, the impact of deregulation and labor relations, and possible solutions. "The lasting contribution of this volume may be its use to historians as they try to understand what the players were thinking in the early 1990s, as the industry embarked on another era of transformation." (from the introduction) Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875463445
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Emerging from a 1993 conference on airline labor relations convened by the National Mediation Board, this volume provides a comprehensive discussion of the problems facing the airline industry, the significance of globalization, the impact of deregulation and labor relations, and possible solutions. "The lasting contribution of this volume may be its use to historians as they try to understand what the players were thinking in the early 1990s, as the industry embarked on another era of transformation." (from the introduction) Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Forces of Labor
Author: Beverly J. Silver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520775
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520775
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Table of contents
Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China
Author: Sabrina Zajak
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134995022X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and often punitive, approach to worker organizations. The author examines how the global labor movement can support the improvement of working conditions in Chinese factories. The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and China, the book shows that activists, by operating at multiple scales, were on some occasions able to support improvements over time. It also indicates how a politically and economically strong state such as China can affect transnational labor activism, by directly and indirectly undermining the opportunities that organized civil societies have to participate in the evolving global labor governance architecture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134995022X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and often punitive, approach to worker organizations. The author examines how the global labor movement can support the improvement of working conditions in Chinese factories. The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and China, the book shows that activists, by operating at multiple scales, were on some occasions able to support improvements over time. It also indicates how a politically and economically strong state such as China can affect transnational labor activism, by directly and indirectly undermining the opportunities that organized civil societies have to participate in the evolving global labor governance architecture.
Precarious Work
Author: Arne L. Kalleberg
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787432882
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787432882
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Working in a Global Era
Author: Vivian Shalla
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551303965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Now in its second edition, this reader presents a critical examination of the changing structure of work in Canada and abroad. Its focus is on the role of Canadian labour in the globalized world. Contributors include David Livingstone, Pat Armstrong, Meg Luxton, Dave Broad, and other prominent Canadian scholars. Each of the seven themed sections begins with a contextual introduction by Vivian Shalla and concludes with critical thinking questions and suggestions for further reading. New to this edition: All new content: 14 up-to-date chapters reflecting the current state of research on work in Canada New section on informal care work More workplace-based chapters that provide a view ""from the shop floor""
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551303965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Now in its second edition, this reader presents a critical examination of the changing structure of work in Canada and abroad. Its focus is on the role of Canadian labour in the globalized world. Contributors include David Livingstone, Pat Armstrong, Meg Luxton, Dave Broad, and other prominent Canadian scholars. Each of the seven themed sections begins with a contextual introduction by Vivian Shalla and concludes with critical thinking questions and suggestions for further reading. New to this edition: All new content: 14 up-to-date chapters reflecting the current state of research on work in Canada New section on informal care work More workplace-based chapters that provide a view ""from the shop floor""