Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of I, Webster, Lambert, Beziu HB^+

Grounding GlobalizationLabour in the Age of Insecurity\nAuthor(s): Edward Webster, Rob Lambert, Andries Beziudenhout\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405129152, 978-1405129152\nSynopsis\n*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.\n\nExamines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion\nAnalyzes three distinct places Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South As