More Details

Summary:

This book analyses the adverse effects of globalisation and liberalisation - manifest in the increased financialisation of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis - on the labour force in different countries, especially the developing ones. It also critically re-assesses the role of informal sector in providing employment, and the potential of trade unions in protecting workers' interests.

Table of Contents:

• 1. From the crisis of distribution to the distribution of the costs of the crisis
• 2. Financial liberalization, deregulated labour markets and new asset market-driven capitalism
• 3. Exploring the link between the labour market, business environment and technology: insights from India
• 4. Global value chains and trade union strategies: implementing international framework agreements
• 5. Organizing workers beyond an employment relationship: a case of independent drivers in road freight transport
• 6. Decent work for urban informal workers: the case of street vendors in Mumbai
• 7. Capital accumulation in the peripheral city: socio-spatial conflict and urban governance
• 8. Indian labour standards in global production systems: a study of IT services and the ITE/BPO sector
• 9. The new work order as contested terrain: call centres in South Africa
• 10. Informal labour: strategies for protection
• 11. From fashion to financial products: working conditions in chosen units of C&A
• 12. Globalization and transformation of the workplace: need for new forms of trade union organization.

Contributors:

Bhowmik, Sharit, 1948- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Labor — India

Labor unions — India

Labor laws and legislation — India

India — Economic conditions

Working class — India

Financial crises — India

Financial crises — 21st century

Recessions — India

Social classes — India

Developing countries — Social conditions

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HD8686.5 .S73 2014eb

ISBNs:

9781317560036 (electronic bk.)
1317560035 (electronic bk.)
9780415710954 [Invalid]
0415710952 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1009123250

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1761950 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12030396