ISBN:
9781607326304
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9781607326311
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9781607326656
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 361 pages
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illustrations
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23 cm
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Gewerkschaft
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Ethnologie
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Neoliberalismus
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"The first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, Uncertain Times addresses the theory that traditional labor union organization has been co-opted by the neoliberal policies of corporate capital and become a member service rather than a driver of social movements"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Hope for labor in a neoliberal world / Paul Durrenberger -- Anthropologists, activists, and the labor movement / Emma Braden -- The gift of labor : the town, the union and the corporate state in the demise of the Swedish car industry / Staffan Löfving -- Trade unions, labor conflict and contested institutions in the Swiss construction industry / Christopher Kelley -- Union power and transnational corporations in the Argentine steel industry / Julia Soul -- Agents of change or status quo? Labor NGOs in South China / Darcy Pan -- Labor struggles in the shipbuilding industry of Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis -- The struggle for labor rights in the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico / María Eugenia de la O -- Growers, unions, and farm laborers in Mexico's Baja California / Christian Zlolniski -- Policies, economic forces, class relations and unions in Spain's strawberry fields : globalized agriculture in Andalusia / Alicia Reigada -- Subcontracted employment and the labor movement's response in Turkey / Alpkan Birelma -- Organized labor in contemporary Israeli retail chains / Gadi Nissim -- National unions, international capital and bankworkers / Steven Payne..
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