{"product_id":"grounding-globalization-isbn-9781405129152","title":"Grounding Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClaims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface: A Journey of Discovery.  \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Polanyi Problem and the Problem with Polanyi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Markets Against Society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Manufacturing Matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Return of Market Despotism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Citizenship Matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Society Against Markets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Strong Winds in Ezakheni.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Escaping Social Death in Changwon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Squeezing Orange.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Society Governing the Market?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. History Matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Grounding Labour Internationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Necessity for Utopian Thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e “Grounding Globalization is a magnificent culmination of work the authors have done previously on South Africa and SIGTUR in particular. It is most certainly ‘grounded’ in the working lives of real people. It is robust and critical social research at its best. Labour analysts and activists will undoubtedly be reading it carefully for years to come.” (\u003ci\u003eGlobalizations\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2009)  \u003cb\u003eEdward Webster\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e is the Chair of Labour Studies at UWA’s Business School and is the Director of the Australian Global Studies Research Centre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndries Bezuidenhout\u003c\/b\u003e works as a senior researcher in the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.\u003c\/p\u003e  Widespread claims have been made on the emergence of a new labor internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity – as a result of war, terrorism, environmental catastrophe, or insecurity in the workplace – they often turn inwards. During previous phases of global insecurity we witnessed the rise of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is distinctive about this book is that it grounds globalization in the everyday lives of workers, their households, and their communities. It compares three towns, Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa, and shows how the global restructuring of white goods corporations is creating a profound experience of insecurity within workers, their families, and their communities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book contains a warning. At times, workers do turn inward and become fatalistic, even xenophobic. But there are also signs of hope. The book explores the possibilities of reempowering labor through engaging space and scale in new ways. Workers are rising to the challenge of neoliberal globalization by attempting to globalize their own struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e  “\u003ci\u003eGrounding Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e is a call for a new politics for the social force that labor as social movement represents in the era of global insecurity. Theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded and politically visionary, it will be read with great interest by students and also by the organic intellectuals of the emerging global labor movement.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonaldo Munck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Dublin City University\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“This is an important, insightful, and wide-ranging book that tackles one of the most important issues of our time. Grounding the theoretical and political narrative in empirical case studies, the book is an excellent account of the realities of economic restructuring and the political possibilities facing the global workforce. It makes a major contribution to academic debates whilst also providing important lessons for activists and policy makers.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Cumbers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Glasgow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989315207397,"sku":"NP9781405129152","price":101.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405129152.jpg?v=1761783636","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/grounding-globalization-isbn-9781405129152","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}