The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies

Edited by Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil

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Abstract: The Politics of Labor in a Global Age is one of the first works to analyse and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on labor relations at national, local, and workplace levels, as economic and politicla actors cope with the similar challenges associated with economic adjustment measures and the impact of 'globalization'. The authors reveal that while globalization has threatened the position of organized labor and prompted business and state elites to accommodate greater labor market flexibility, the legacies of past institutions remain evident in destinctive trends in labor politics within and across late-industrializing and post-socialist settings. The comparisons suggest that globalization is best understood not as a source of covergence but as a set of common pressures that are mediated by specific historical inheritances, that spur varied responses on the part of industrial relations actors, and that facilitate quite diverse institutional outcomes. Contributors to this volume - Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil M. Victoria Murillo Christopher Candland Scott Martin Eileen M. Doherty Charles Weathers Xiaobo Lu Rudra Sil Jeffrey Kopstein Mitchell A. Orenstein and Lisa E. Hale Rudra Sil and Christopher Candland

Date: 2001
ISBN: 9780199241149
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