Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation

Andrew Gamble

ISBN 10: 0719075866 / ISBN 13: 9780719075865

Editore: Manchester University Press Apr 2007, 2007

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Neuware - With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible.

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• Titolo: Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation
• Editore: Manchester University Press Apr 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719075866
• ISBN 13: 9780719075865
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 242 L x 167 A x 29 P (millimetri) 242 millimetri di larghezza per 167 millimetri di altezza per 29 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 545 grammi

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With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980's as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labor as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history, and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labor, its organizations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labor organizations have not gone away and neither has the state, their relationship remains as significant as ever.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jonathan Pattenden is Lecturer in Politics and International Development at the University of East Anglia


Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield Andrew Taylor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield Stephen Wood is Professor of Work Psychology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield

Jonathan Pattenden is Lecturer in Politics and International Development at the University of East Anglia