Globalizations of Organized Labour

Focusing on the transnational network of labour organizations, this book maps change across organizational and relational dimensions. By using two touchstone indicators - the extent of cross-border integration, and the degree of autonomy vis-a-vis the state - it explores the ways in which organized labour has globalized since 1945. The author argues that while the network is more integrated than ever, it remains fixated with state-mediated forms of governance. This is in spite of the many indicators suggesting that organized labour may be disengaging from the state. Al this makes the process of labour globalization a counterintuitive one: organized labour's globalization includes a continuing orientation towards the state. The author's sanguine view of future transnational labour affairs is premised on a likely marriage between oppositional and labour actors at the intersection of regional and bilateral trade negotiations. This book helps to redress an imbalance in the literature that favours structure-focused globalization analyses. It is distinctive because it maintains that globalization can be understood as much as a set of practices as an inexorable structural determinant.

ISBN 9780230512276   Format Electronic Book ISBN13 9780230512276 (What's this?)   Pages 216 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Series title International Political Economy Series Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Previous ISBN 9781403993380

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