Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highligh
Trade Review
“Grounding Globalization represents a culmination of the individual and collective efforts of the authors to establish a ‘new’ international labour studies. It is a bold and ambitious project, but it is also one precisely based on a ‘grounded’ understanding of how workers live their lives, adapt to the discipline of the market, and sometimes vigorously contest it." (Labor History Journal, November 2008)
Table of Contents
Preface: A Journey of Discovery. List of Abbreviations.
1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi.
Part One: Markets Against Society.
2. Manufacturing Matters.
3. The Return of Market Despotism.
4. Citizenship Matters.
Part Two: Society Against Markets.
5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni.
6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon.
7. Squeezing Orange.
Part Three: Society Governing the Market?
8. History Matters.
9. Grounding Labour Internationalism.
10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking.
Notes.
References.
Index.
