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705998
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b528187
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Silver, Beverly J.
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| Title & Author
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Forces of labor : : workers' movements and globalization since 1870 /\ Beverly J. Silver.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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xv, 238 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521520770 (pbk.)
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: 052181751X
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: 9780521520775 (pbk.)
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: 9780521817516
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-227) and index.
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| Contents
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List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Labor movements and capital mobility -- Labor movements and product cycles -- Labor movements and world politics -- Contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspective -- Appendix A : The World Labor Group Database : conceptualization, measurement, and data collection procedures -- Appendix B : Instructions for recording data from indexes -- Appendix C : Country classifications -- References -- Index.
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| Abstract
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Publisher's description: Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic and social processes since the late-nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries it demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise/decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development, and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. The book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.
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Automobile industry workers-- History.
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Business relocation-- History.
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Capitalism-- History.
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Globalization-- Economic aspects-- History.
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Labor disputes-- History.
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Labor movement-- History.
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Manufacturing processes-- History.
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Textile workers-- History.
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