Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds write by Lowell Turner. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds examines a diverse array of innovative strategies for revitalizing the labor movement by forming alliances outside the workplace with a variety of community groups, social movements, and faith-based organizations, particularly those that address civil rights, immigrant rights, and consumer concerns. This book presents case studies of issues—such as living wages, community development corporations, and local politics—around which urban coalitions are built in "union towns" (New York City, Boston, Buffalo, and Seattle), "frontier cities" (Los Angeles, Miami, San Jose, and Nashville), and European cities (London, Frankfurt, and Hamburg). Introducing the role of urban social context in the field of labor revitalization, the editors have chosen cases with different outcomes—cities in which strong coalitions have enabled new union influence are contrasted with those in which such coalition building has been thwarted. As they survey the successes and failures of the new urban labor movement, the editors and contributors conclude that actor choice, strategic innovation, coalition building, and the urban context of labor organizing are key elements in the revitalization of the labor movement and the renewal of democracy. This book will allow the labor leaders of the future to learn from the recent experiences of their peers throughout the United States and Europe.
Labor in a Globalizing City
Labor in a Globalizing City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labor in a Globalizing City write by Simone Judith Buechler. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Labor in a Globalizing City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in São Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler’s book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transformation in São Paulo from 1996 to 2003. Buechler’s in-depth ethnographic research over a period of 17 years include interviews with a variety of social actors ranging from favela inhabitants to Wall Street bankers. Buechler examines the paradox of a globalizing city with highly developed financial, service, and industrial sectors, but at the same time a growing sector of microenterprises, degraded labor, considerable unemployment, unprecedented inequality, and precarious infrastructure in its low-income communities. The author argues that informalization and low-income women’s labor are an integral part of the global economy. Other countries are continuing to use the same kind of neo-liberal economic model even though once again with the latest global financial crisis, it has proven to be detrimental to many workers.
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance write by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines international labour export of Filipino migrant workers and forms of resistance to globalization.
The Global City
The Global City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global City write by Saskia Sassen. This book was released on 2013-04-04. The Global City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.
Global Cities at Work
Global Cities at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Cities at Work write by Jane Wills. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Global Cities at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the new century. Global Cities at Work breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labor to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalization. Global Cities at Work raises the level of debate about migrant labor, encouraging policy-makers, journalists and social scientists to look behind the headlines. The book calls us to take a politically-informed geographical view of our urban labor markets and to prioritize the issue of working poverty and its implications for both unemployment and community cohesion.
