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We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.
This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today's societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences on diverse platforms.
Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action.
Reconnections: Labor Sociologies in a Globalizing Era
Reconnections: Labor Sociologies in a Globalizing Era
Introduction
In the past thirty years, the reconfiguration of world society under the combined pressures of globalization, neoliberalism, climate change and, most recently, the worldwide recession, has transformed work and employment, placing contradictory pressures on organized labor everywhere. These pressures in the prosperous countries of the Global North – ending a generation of broadening and deepening workers’ rights, spreading precarious employment and low-end service jobs, hollowing out the state and manufacturing, placing unparalleled power in the hands of mobile private enterprise – have contributed to the quantitative and qualitative decline of organized labor in most developed countries.
Simultaneously these pressures have stimulated new forms of both worker organization and worker repression in poorer countries of the Global South. Increasingly, many embattled unions in the prosperous ...
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