<p>Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.</p>

Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Business & Money

Silver, Beverly J.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.

Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System

History

Arrighi, Giovanni

World

Univ. of Minnesota Press

<p>Esta obra analiza la actual crisis de acumulación y la concomitante explosión financiera de las últimas décadas como procesos recurrentes de la economía-mundo capitalista considerada como unidad histórica plurisecular (siglos XV-XX) y como red de dinámicas económicas, políticas y sociales dotadas de proyección mundial. Para ello se efectúa un análisis del capitalismo considerando este sistema económico, social y político como una unidad histórica dotada de coherencia interna desde sus orígenes (siglo XV) hasta la actualidad (coordinada temporal) y como un modelo de acumulación y estructuración política y social, cuya lógica es posible descubrir únicamente analizando la globalidad del proceso de crecimiento y expansión económico e interestatal a nivel mundial (coordenada espacial). El libro de Giovanni Arrighi constituye la referencia fundamental de la reciente historiografía internacional sobre el capitalismo en general y sobre la actual crisis económica en particular.</p>

Caos y orden en el sistema-mundo moderno (Cuestiones De Antagonismo) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Akal

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