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The text is split into three parts, globalisation, spatial dimensions and social dimensions, each of which contains four chapters. Each chapter offers a perspective from differing spatial and social realities thus providing the reader with a balanced overview of the development of labour-based challenge to the ravages of globalisation.

Table of Contents:
PART I: GLOBAL DIMENSIONS 1. An Emerging Agenda for Trade Unions? Richard Hyman 2. The ICFTU and the World Economy - An Historical Perspective 3. Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick 4. Globalisation, Imperialism and the Labour Standards Debate Robert O'Brien 5. Towards Global Networked Unions Eric Lee PART II: SPATIAL DIMENSIONS 6. Re-Scaling Trade Union Organisation: Lessons From the European Front Line Jane Wills 7. Australia and Beyond: Targeting Rio Tinto James Goodman 8. International Solidarity and Labour in South Africa Roger Southall and Andries Bezuidenhout 9. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association) and Labour: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives John D French PART III: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS 10. Beyond Unions: Labour, Codes of Conduct and Women Working Worldwide Linda Shaw 11. Globalisation and Child Labour: Protection, Liberation or Anti-Capitalism? Michael Lavalette and Steve Cunningham 12. Globalisation, Trade Unionism and Solidarity: Further Reflections on the Liverpool Dock Lock-Out Jane Kennedy and Michael Lavalette 13. Globalisation and Trade Union Strategy: Evidence from the International Civil Aviation Industry Paul Blyton, Miguel Martinez Lucio, John McGurk and Peter Turnbull

About the Author :
RONALDO MUNCK is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Liverpool. Born and educated in Argentina, Ronaldo went on to do a PhD at the Unversity of Essex on the Brazilian Military Coup in 1964. Since then he has published widely on Latin America, from the best-selling Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America (1984) to Contemporary Latin America (forthcoming). He is currently Senior Editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research as well as an editor of the US journal Latin American Perspectives, and has been engaged to edit a book series on globalization for the Kumarian Press in the USA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780853238270
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Results and Prospects
  • ISBN-10: 0853238278
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 156 mm


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