{"product_id":"9781444399844","title":"Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes three distinct places – Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa – and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128311529712,"sku":"9781444399844","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781444399844_p0.jpg?v=1763815163","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781444399844","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}