Globalization Contested
Louise Amoore
Business & Money
Globalization Contested
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This exciting book provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalization that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. Rejecting conventional explanations of globalization as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalization is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring. This book offers students and scholars of international political economy, sociology and industrial relations an innovative framework for the analysis of globalisation and the restructuring of work.

Language
English
ISBN
0-7190-6096-6
Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Globalisation, restructuring and the flexibility discourse
2 International political economy and global social change
3 Producing hyperflexibility: the restructuring of work in Britain
4 Producing flexi-corporatism: the restructuring of work in Germany
5 The ‘contested’ firm: the restructuring of work and production in the international political economy
6 Globalisation at work: unheard voices and invisible agency
Conclusion: an international political economy of work
Bibliography
Index
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