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Workers in a Lean World
Kim Moody
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Description for Workers in a Lean World
Paperback. A comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, this book surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
In this comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. He provides a measured assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. He emphasizes the need, in the face of these changes, for renewal and international coordination among national unions and provides examples, from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, of how this has been achieved.
A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of ... Read more
In this comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. He provides a measured assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. He emphasizes the need, in the face of these changes, for renewal and international coordination among national unions and provides examples, from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, of how this has been achieved.
A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859841044
SKU
V9781859841044
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Ref
99-3
About Kim Moody
Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of Workers in a Lean World. He has taught at the Cornell Labor Studies Program and at Brooklyn College and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
Reviews for Workers in a Lean World
Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement. In this book he sweeps across the world to reveal exactly how class struggles between multinational capital and labor has shaped working conditions, capital mobility, state power, and the prospects for a visionary labor movement.
Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black ... Read more Of the many books we've seen on globalization, Workers in a Lean World presents the best analysis of how working people can respond strategically to the on-going transformation of capitalism.
Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello
New Politics
This is a very important study that deserves a wide audience.
Choice
An exceptional book.
John Buell
The Progressive
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Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black ... Read more Of the many books we've seen on globalization, Workers in a Lean World presents the best analysis of how working people can respond strategically to the on-going transformation of capitalism.
Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello
New Politics
This is a very important study that deserves a wide audience.
Choice
An exceptional book.
John Buell
The Progressive
Show Less