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Labour in a Global World

Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe

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  1. Theo Nichols
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  2. Surhan Cam
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Part of the book series: Future of Work (TFW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The World of White Goods — Markets, Industry Structure and Dynamics

    • Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam
    Pages 1-22

  3. The View from the UK — Mature Markets, High Imports and Other Problems

    • Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam
    Pages 23-56

  4. South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe — White Goods in Post-Colonial Societies: Markets, the State and Production

    • Andries Bezuidenhout
    Pages 57-91

  5. China — White Goods and the Capitalist Transformation

    • Wei Zhao, Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam
    Pages 92-119

  6. Taiwan: The Disappearance of the ‘Golden Tale’ — White Goods in a Changing Global Economy

    • Wen-chi Grace Chou, Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam
    Pages 120-143

  7. Turkey: The Development of White Goods in the ‘EU Periphery’

    • Nadir Sugur, Theo Nichols
    Pages 144-172

  8. Brazil: Between Global Trends and National Politics — Restructuring and Workers’ Responses

    • Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo, Leda Gitahy, Alessandra Rachid, Adrianna Marques da Cunha
    Pages 173-205

  9. Labour in a Global World — Some Comparisons

    • Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam
    Pages 206-238

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 239-244
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About this book

This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of countries - China, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey - it makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of the diffusion of management methods, the role of the state in employee relations, the nature of trade unionism and the impact of social structure on production relations.

Reviews

'This book makes an innovative contribution to our understanding of the ways in which workers across the world experience both the dynamic and uneven character of contemporary globalisation. The authors develop a systematic comparison of work and employment relations in factories in the same sector across many countries, and set this in the context of both national political and market conditions and wider international processes of market rivalry and corporate concentration. As such they demonstrate the great value of a comparative approach to contemporary industrial change.' - Tony Elger, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

An illuminating comparison between employment strategies in Britain and three countries in south-east Asia.' - The Financial Times

About the authors

THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. He has written widely in the general field of economic sociology, including ownership and control, management and management ideology, class consciousness, productivity and industrial injuries. His latest book, on Turkish workers and modern industry, Global Management and Local Labour (written with Nadir Sugur) was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.

SURHAN CAM was formerly Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He is currently Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, where he is engaged in a survey on the problem-solving strategies of unorganised workers in Britain. He has a special interest in neo-liberalism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Labour in a Global World

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe

  • Authors: Theo Nichols, Surhan Cam

  • Series Title: Future of Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512320

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3979-1Published: 10 June 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52017-6Published: 10 June 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51232-0Published: 10 June 2005

  • Series ISSN: 2947-8766

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-8774

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 244

  • Topics: International Business, Sociology of Work, International Economics

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