Globalisation, Industrial Restructuring and Labour Standards
Globalisation, Industrial Restructuring and Labour Standards

Author: Debdas Banerjee

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-07-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780761933564

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This book analyses the current conditions of work in the Indian factory sector, and provides a critical analysis of the wage, profit and productivity behaviour in India’s organised manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Examining the specificities of the conditions of industrial workers, it addresses three major questions:/-//-/- What has happened to the relative shares of profits and wages;/-/- How do we explain the levels and changes and;/-/- Are better labour standards antithetical to the project of industrial restructuring?/-//-/The author also examines the problem of industrial restructuring in India within the broader context of power and inequality in the workplace. He argues that even though the existing laws mandate decent labour conditions, India has been unable to implement them because of the minimalist position taken by successive governments./-//-/Providing new and fascinating insights into industrial growth, labour standards and development in the framework of globalisation, this book will interest students and scholars of economics, economic history, political science and sociology, as well as students of management and labour relations.

Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment
Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment

Author: Peter Auer

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9789290147831

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This collection of papers examines key trends in the internationalisation of employment, drawing on the proceedings of an ILO conference held in Annecy, France in April 2005. The papers focus on three related issues: the impacts of trade and investment abroad, including the offshoring of production of goods and services, and effects on the winners and losers in terms of employment; adjustment methods for coping with the short and medium term problems related to the globalisation of employment; and the importance of international instruments to help ensure a level playing field in trade and promote development, drawing on established rights and international labour standards.

Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity

Author: Andreas Bieler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1136905804

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This volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector.

Interrogating the New Economy
Interrogating the New Economy

Author: Norene Pupo

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1442600578

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Interrogating the New Economy is a collection of original essays investigating the New Economy and how changes ascribed to it have impacted labour relations, access to work, and, more generally, the social and cultural experiences of work in Canada. Based on years of participatory research, sector-specific studies, and quantitative and qualitative data collection, the work accounts for the ways in which the contemporary workplace has changed but also the extent to which older forms of work organization still remain. The collection begins with an overview of the key social and economic transformations that define the New Economy. It then illustrates these transformations through examples, including essays on wine tourism, the regeneration of mining communities, the place of student workers, and changes in the public service workplace. It also addresses unions and their responses to the restructuring of work, as well as other forms of resistance.

Decent Work and the Informal Economy
Decent Work and the Informal Economy

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Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Describes the informal economy and highlights its decent work deficit. Proposes an integrated strategy to address underlying causes of informality and to promote decent work in all sectors of the economy, from formal to informal.

Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

Author: International Labor Office

Publisher: International Labor Office

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labor chapter or labor provision that makes reference to international labor standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labor provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislations with respect to workers' rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labor standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This new report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labor provisions.

Globalization and Social Progress
Globalization and Social Progress

Author: Werner Sengenberger

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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Focuses on the role that universal international labour standards can play in promoting social progress in the context of economic globalization.

The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour
The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour

Author: Paul Edwards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1317949021

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The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance edited by Jeremy Waddington, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research on the relationship between the globalization of production and the regulation of labour. It considers the ways in which national and supra-national regimes of labour regulation are being actively reconstructed in the context of the internationalization of production. The contributors analyze the implications of changes in different national labour regimes for relations between state, capital and labour, and for class and gender segmentation, and discuss the scope and limits of recent initiatives in the implementation of international labour standards.

The Future of European Welfare
The Future of European Welfare

Author: Martin Rhodes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1349265438

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European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged. First, welfare spending has arguably 'grown to limits' in a number of countries while expanding everywhere in the 1990s in line with higher unemployment. Second, demographic change and the emergence of new patterns of family and working life are transforming the nature of 'needs'. Third, the economic context and the policy autonomy of nation states has been transformed by 'globalization'. This book considers the implications of these challenges for European welfare states at the end of the twentieth century with interdisciplinary contributions from first-rate political scientists, economists and sociologists including Paul Ormerod.