Description
Book SynopsisThis book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations, and new patterns of resistance in strategic national and international alliances of unions with other social movements. -- .
Table of Contents1. Introduction: labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalisation - Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam, Andrew J. Taylor and Stephen Wood
Theory
2. The category of labour: its continued relevance in social theory - David Coates
3. Labour in the twenty first century: state strategies - Vivien A. Schmidt
THE GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CHALLENGE
4. Fractured capacity in regulating international labour standards:the perils of voluntary self-regulation and competition for moral authority - Austina J. Reed and Charlotte Yates
5. Creating a labour dispensation for the 21st century: the case of South Africa - Darcy Du Toit
6. Liberalisation and trade unionism in Mozambique - Beata Mtyingizana
7. Relations between capital and labour in Turkey: from neoliberalism to democratisation - Nazim Güveloglu
8. Strange company? organised labour and the politics of liberalisation in India - Michael Gillan
PATTERNS OF RESISTENCE ACROSS THE GLOBE
9. Problems of social movement Unionism - Bill Dunn
10. Self regulating markets, restructuring and the new labour internationalism - Rob Lambert
11. Recasting the story of David and Goliath in the global economy - Anibel Ferus-Comelo
12. Sintraemcali and social movement unionism: trade union resistance to neo-liberal globalisation in Colombia - Mario Novelli
13. Canalising resistance: historical continuities and contrasts of ‘alter-globalist’ movements at the European Social Forums - Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton
