Rethinking Global Labour: After Neoliberalism

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: the issues
	Structure of the book
Part I History of labour
	1 Labour and capitalism
		Born in blood
		Reimagining the working class
		The great transformation
		Back to the future: a role for trade unions?
	2 The golden era
		New model capitalism
		Fordism and welfare
		New international division of labour
	3 The era of globalization
		A new great transformation
		Labour and globalization
		Flexibility and feminization of labour
		Global social movement?
Part II Development of a global working class
	4 Workers North
		Flexible financial capitalism
		Future of work
		Regional models of capitalism
			United States
			Europe
			Japan
		Capitalism in the former communist Eastern Europe
		After Fordism?
		A flexible workforce
		Trade union responses to the new model capitalism
	5 Workers South
		A new international division of labour
		Informal work
			Women and the informal sector
			Trade unions and the informal sector
			Women’s labour organizations
			Women working worldwide
			Labour movement and gender
		The labour movement’s response
		China
		Emergence of social movement unionism
			Global labour rights
	6 A global precariat
		Marginality
		Northern precarity
		Informality
		Social exclusion
		Reconstructing the precariat
Part III New challenges for global labour
	7 Migrant labour
		Migration and the working class
		Trade unions and labour migration
		Labour migration today
		People trafficking and modern slavery
		Migration and trade union revitalization
		Social transformation
	8 Labour and its others
		Labour as a social movement
		The environmental challenge
		Trade unions and global justice
		The Battle of Seattle
		Trade unions and the labour movement
	9 Labour internationalism
		The national era
		The transition
		The global era
	Conclusion
		Beyond the impasse
		A complexity frame
		Is another world possible?
References
Index