Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: Theoretical perspectives and Contemporary Issues

ATZENI, M.

Palgrave

Lugar: Basingstoke; Año: 2014 p. 252

978-0230303171

The book aims to be both an introductory text for students to core and contemporary issues related to the role of workers in society and an academic contribution to the field of industrial relations, the sociology of work and social theory of work, from a radical Marxist perspective. It will be an edited book from international contributors consisting of three parts. The first explains the continued centrality of labour within capitalism, focusing on aspects related to class, social reproduction and work organization as mediated by different geographical and historical contexts. The second focuses on labour as actor for social change and aims to explain strategies, forms and processes of workers? resistance to work within capitalism. The third considers how globalization has, on the one hand, made more precarious the conditions of work for the majority of the world population but, on the other hand, how forms of workers? resistance and self-organization have appeared from different groups of workers in different sectors of the economy.