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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thiago Aguiar , William I. RobinsonPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9798888902240Pages: 306 Publication Date: 16 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Acronyms Introduction Walking on Shifting Ground 1 A Period of Crisis and the General Direction of Change 2 Global Capitalism, Transnational Capital and Labor: An Approach 3 Framing Multi-situated Social Phenomena: Global Production Networks ( gpn s), Corporate Strategies, and International Trade Union Networks 4 Some Methodological Notes: Ethnographic Inspiration and the ‘Extended Case Method’ 1 From Companhia Vale do Rio Doce to Vale S.A. 1 The cvrd ’s Privatization and the Internationalization Leap 2 The Mineral Commodity Boom and Post-boom 3 Changes and Continuity in the Strategy for Labor and Union Relations after Privatization 4 Some Characteristics of Vale’s Iron Ore gpn in Brazil 2 Corporate Power and Union Fragmentation Vale’s Labor and Union Relations Strategy in Brazil 1 Entering the Field in a Period of Crisis 2 Collective Power Weakened 3 The First Driver of the Carajás Railroad 4 Employee Representation in Vale’s Board of Directors 5 The Challenges of Entering Carajás 6 “It’s Always Good to Know Who You’re Talking To” 3 Vale Buys a Canadian Treasure Restructuring, Strike, and International Trade Union Network 1 “The Great Canadian Mining Non-disaster” 2 A Brazilian Mother-in-Law for the Orphans of “Mother Inco” 3 A Powerful Multinational Union with Deep Local Roots 4 “It Can’t Be Easy to Have Me as a Boss” 5 Defeat or Victory? 6 Vale’s International Trade Union Network: A Frustrated Experience 4 Global Capitalism, Pension Funds and Vale’s ‘New Corporate Governance’ as a Manner of Conclusion 1 The Pension Funds and the Control of Vale after Privatization 2 The Relationship with the Federal Government and the Role of bndes in the Company’s Financial Strategy 3 Pension Funds and the Transnationalization of Vale 4 Vale’s ‘New Corporate Governance’ after the Commodity Boom: Reorientation of Pension Funds and Increased Presence of Transnational Investors Epilogue Vale S.A., a Transnational Corporation on the Shifting Ground of Globalization Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationThiago Aguiar holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo, and was visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at IFCH-Unicamp and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic-USP). He is also the author of O solo movediço da globalização: trabalho e extração mineral na Vale S.A. and Maquiando o trabalho: opacidade e transparência numa empresa de cosméticos global. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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