Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour

by Bill Dunn

Book Overview

Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134951621X
• ISBN13: 9781349516216
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"