Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

by Berberoglu, Berch; Adler, Marina A.; Bina, Cyrus; Davis, Chuck; Fox, Julia D.; Gartman, David; Katz-Fishman, Walda; Leggett, John C.; Lembcke, Jerry; Modupe, Ife; Parker, Robert E.; Prechel, Harland; Scott, Jerome; Yaghmaian, Behzad

• ISBN13: 9780742516601
• ISBN10: 0742516601
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781461638568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-13
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies--from auto to steel to agriculture--as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: The Political Economy of the Labor Process in the Age of Globalization	1	(10)
Berch Berberoglu
Labor and Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century	11	(18)
Jerry Lembcke
Labor, Capital, and the Struggle for Control at the Point of Production	29	(22)
David Gartman
The Labor Process and the Transformation of Corporate Control in the Global Economy	51	(18)
Harland Prechel
Working Women and the Dynamics of Power at Work	69	(18)
Marina A. Adler
Race, Nationality, and the Division of Labor in U.S. Agriculture	87	(20)
John C. Leggett
The Global Economy and Changes in the Nature of Contingent Work	107	(18)
Robert E. Parker
The Political Economy of Global Accumulation and Its Emerging Mode of Regulation	125	(20)
Behzad Yaghmaian
Women's Work and Resistance in the Global Economy	145	(18)
Julia D. Fox
Dynamics of Globalization: Transnational Capital and the International Labor Movement	163	(16)
Cyrus Bina
Chuck Davis
Globalization of Capital and Class Struggle	179	(16)
Walda Katz-Fishman
Jerome Scott
Ife Modupe
Bibliography	195	(14)
Index	209	(8)
About the Contributors	217	(4)
About the Editor	221