Global Economy Contested: Finance, Production, Development and Labour (Rethinking Globalizations)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction: Global economy contested......Page 18
Part I: Reworking the international division of labour......Page 26
1 Power, conflict and the production of the global economy......Page 28
2 Globalisation and the uneven subsumption of labour under capital in Russia......Page 49
3 Making the ‘workshop of the world’......Page 68
Part II: Commodity chains, labour standards and corporate social responsibility......Page 94
4 Restructuring and conflict in the global athletic footwear industry: Nike, Yue Yuen and labour codes of conduct......Page 96
5 Offshore production, labour standards and collective organisation in the globalising US apparel industry......Page 115
6 Corporate social responsibility and labour market discipline: Contesting social reproduction in low-wage America......Page 134
Part III: Global finance and socially responsible investing......Page 156
7 Pension fund capitalism, pension fund socialism, and dissent from investment......Page 158
8 Imposing social responsibility?: Pension funds and the politics of development finance......Page 175
Part IV: New directions in labour organising?......Page 196
9 Challenging labour market flexibilisation: Union and community-based struggles in post-apartheid South Africa......Page 198
10 After the collapse: Workers and social conflict in Argentina......Page 219
11 Globalisation, contestation and labour internationalism: A transformationalist perspective......Page 237
Index......Page 256