{"product_id":"grounding-globalization-labour-in-the-age-of-insecurity-9781405129152","title":"Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edward Webster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\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  *Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion *Analyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring *Explores 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","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45203467042967,"sku":"9781405129152","price":6714.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781405129152.webp?v=1767308089","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/grounding-globalization-labour-in-the-age-of-insecurity-9781405129152","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}