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Author:   Marcus Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780415850322

ISBN 10:   0415850320
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   11 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Who Works for Globalisation? The Challenges and Possibilities for International Labour Studies Marcus Taylor Part 1: The Social Construction of Labour for the Global Economy 2. Modes of Production, Rules for Reproduction and Gender: The Fabrication of China’s Textile Manufacturing Workforce since the late Empire Etienne Cantin 3. Gendering Liberalisation and Labour Reform in Malaysia: Fostering ‘Competitiveness’ in the Productive and Reproductive Economies Juanita Elias 4. China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers? Haiyan Wang, Richard P. Appelbaum, Francesca DeGiuli and Nelson Lichtenstein 5. From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: The Dual Process of Constructing Temporary Migrant Labour in Mexico and Canada Leigh Binford Part 2: New Working Classes, Collective Organising and Modes of Resistance 6. Disciplining Capital: Export Grape Production, the State and Class Dynamics in Northeast Brazil Ben Selwyn 7. Legal Liminality: The Gender and Labour Politics of Organising South Korea’s Irregular Workforce Jennifer Jihye Chun 8. The Radicalisation of the New Chinese Working Class: A Case Study of Collective Action in the Gemstone Industry Leung Pak Nang and Pun Ngai Part 3: Transborder Struggles, Corporate Social Responsibility and the ‘New Labour Internationalism’ 9. Local Worker Struggles in the Global South: Reconsidering Northern Impacts on International Labour Standards Don Wells 10. Labouring under an Illusion? Lesotho’s ‘Sweat-Free’ Label Gay W. Seidman 11. Jumping Scale and Bridging Space in the Era of Corporate Social Responsibility: Cross-Border Labour Struggles in the Global Garment Industry Jeroen Merk 12. Afterword: Beyond the ‘New’ International Labour Studies Ronaldo Munck Rewview Article 13. Power, Production and Solidarity: Trends in Contemporary International Labour Studies Andrew Stevens

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Marcus Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of From Pinochet to the ‘Third Way’: Neoliberalism and Social Transformation in Chile (Pluto, 2006) and contributing editor of Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict Across the International Division of Labour (2008).

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