The Politics of Labor in a Global Age
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Book Description
One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." As unions
in late-developing countries engaged in economic liberalization, and as unions in post-socialist economies cope with the break down of command economies, these pressures have grown. The authors also reveal that globalization has weakened organized labor, yet they explain that distinct labor
institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures. Globalization may even facilitate variation in the pattern of labor relations at national, local, and workplace levels, and within and across late-industrializing and post-socialist settings.
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Analyzes and compares recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrialized and post-socialist economies. Softcover. Hardcover available.
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age,Christopher Candland,Rudra Sil,Oxford University Press, USA,0199241147,Development - Economic Development,Economic Conditions,Labor & Industrial Relations - General,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Policy - Economic Policy,Employment & labour law,Globalization,Labour economics,Political Science / Economic Policy,Political economy,Political science & theory,Politics | Comparative Politics | Comparative Politics,Transitional economies
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