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Labour in a Global World: Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe (Future of Work)
Nichols, Theo, Çam, Sürhan
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Description for Labour in a Global World: Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe (Future of Work)
Hardcover. Series: Future of Work. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1H; 1KLS; JFFS; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of countries - China, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey - it makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of the diffusion of management methods, the role of the state in employee relations, the nature of trade unionism and the impact of social structure on production relations.
This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of countries - China, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey - it makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of the diffusion of management methods, the role of the state in employee relations, the nature of trade unionism and the impact of social structure on production relations.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Future of Work
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403939791
SKU
V9781403939791
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Ref
99-15
About Nichols, Theo, Çam, Sürhan
THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. He has written widely in the general field of economic sociology, including ownership and control, management and management ideology, class consciousness, productivity and industrial injuries. His latest book, on Turkish workers and modern industry, Global Management and Local Labour (written with Nadir Sugur) was published ... Read more
Reviews for Labour in a Global World: Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe (Future of Work)
'This book makes an innovative contribution to our understanding of the ways in which workers across the world experience both the dynamic and uneven character of contemporary globalisation. The authors develop a systematic comparison of work and employment relations in factories in the same sector across many countries, and set this in the context of both national political and market ... Read more