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Title Struggle in a time of crisis / edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi
Published London, England : Pluto Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Understanding the Crisis; 1 Planet Earth is Wage-led! A Simultaneous Increase in the Profit Share by 1 Per Cent-point in the Major Developed and Developing Countries Leads to a 0.36 Per Cent Decline in Global GDP; 2 From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics; 3 State Funding of Research and the Narrowing of Economics in the UK; 4 Globalisation and Taxation: Trends and Consequences
5 T-shirt economics: Labour in the Imperialist World EconomySection 2: Europe in Turmoil; 6 Greece in the Deadlock of the Troika's Austerity Trap; 7 The ECB's Misleading Understanding of the Euro Crisis; 8 Europe's Lost Decade: Paths out of Stagnation; 9 The Crisis, Structural Reform and the Fortification of Neoliberalism in Europe; 10 The Economic Crisis and Job Quality in Europe: Some Worrying Trends and Worse May be to Come; Section 3: Exploring Alternatives; 11 Tackling Unemployment and Growing Public Debt; 12 Tax for Equity (T4E): Getting Wages Back on Track
13 The State as the Employer of Last Resort14 'We are Steaming Ahead': NUMSA's Road to the Left; 15 Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Towards a New Progressive Consensus; Section 4: Resisting Exploitation and Neoliberalism; 16 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Outcome?; 17 Right to Work and Michigan Labour; 18 A Site of Struggle: Organised Labour and Domestic Worker Organising in Mozambique; 19 Constructing an anti-Neoliberal Analysis to Arrive at Truly Alternative Alternatives; 20 The 2012 Strike Wave, Marikana and the History of Rock Drillers in South African Mines
Section 5: Good Samaritans? Institutional Responses to Labour Right Abuses21 Where is Decent Work in DfID Policy? Marketisation and Securitisation of UK International Aid; 22 The National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil: A Useful Tool for Unions?; 23 Better Work or 'Ethical Fix'? Lessons from Cambodia's Apparel Industry; 24 Putting Workers' Agency at the Centre in the Indonesian Sportswear Industry; 25 Rana Plaza: Private Governance and Corporate Power in Global Supply Chains; Section 6: 'Workers of the World, Unite': Challenges and Opportunities of Transnational Solidarity
26 Rank and File Participation and International Union Democracy27 Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity; 28 Modelling a Global Union Strategy: The Arena of Global Production Networks, Global Framework Agreements and Trade Union Networks; 29 Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism; 30 Chinese Construction Companies in Africa: A Challenge for Trade Unions; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary Essays from the Global Labour Column which highlight the role of labour in the fightback against neoliberalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2015)
Subject Financial crises
Economic history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Economic history
Financial crises
Form Electronic book
Author Pons-Vignon, Nicolas, editor
Nkosi, Mbuso, editor
ISBN 9781783717316
1783717319
0745336167
9780745336169
9781783717323
1783717327
9781783717330
1783717335