1st Edition
The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance edited by Jeremy Waddington, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research on the relationship between the globalization of production and the regulation of labour. It considers the ways in which national... Read more
Chapter 1 National States and the Regulation of Labour in the Global Economy: An Introduction, Tony Elger, Paul Edwards; Chapter 2 The Recomposition of National States in the Global Economy: From Politicized to Depoliticized Forms of Labour Regulation, Peter Burnham; Chapter 3 Local Discipline: Making Space for the ‘Workfare State’, Jamie Peck; Chapter 4 Regulation, Restructuring and Regeneration in Coalfields: Three European Cases, Chas Critcher, Dave Parry, Dave Waddington; Chapter 5 The Nordic Model and the Making of the Competitive ‘Us’, Pauli Kettunen; Chapter 6 Between Control and Consensus: Globalization and Australia's Enigmatic Corporatism, Ian Hampson; Chapter 7 Globalization and the Pursuit of Pay Equity: Contradictory Pressures in the Australian Case, Gillian Whitehouse, Di Zetlin; Chapter 8 Labour Clauses, the World Trade Organization and Child Labour in India, Robert Castle, D. P. Chaudhri, Chris Nyland, Trang Nguyen; Chapter 9 Tales of Two Worlds: Globalization and Sexual Exploitation, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor;
Biography
Paul Edwards, Tony Elger
