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Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour

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  • © 2004

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  1. Bill Dunn

    1. University of the West of England, UK

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Perspectives of Labour and Global Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Bringing Labour Back In

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 3-12

    3. Globalisation, the State and Labour

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 13-23

    4. Globalisation: The Spatial Dispersal of Labour?

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 24-40

    5. Post-Fordism: The Social Dispersal of Labour?

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 41-51

    6. Investigating the Claims of Globalisation and Post-Fordism

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 52-58

  3. Evidence of Labour’s Condition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Automobiles

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 61-89

    3. Construction

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 90-113

    4. Semiconductors

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 114-136

    5. Finance

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 137-165

  4. Reconsidering the Power of Labour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Assessing Restructuring and Labour’s Situation

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 169-193

    3. From the Critique of Globalisation and Post-Fordism to Strategic Research for Labour

      • Bill Dunn
      Pages 194-212

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 213-245
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About this book

Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural explanations of labour's situation. It redirects attention towards labour's political defeats and own institutional shortcomings.

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  • University of the West of England, UK

    Bill Dunn

About the author

BILL DUNN has taught International Political Economy at the University of Bristol and Sociology the University of the West of England where he was also awarded his PhD. He has had work published on capital mobility and the experiences of transport and communications workers and on international construction contracting.

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