[movimenti.bicocca] Workers' Movements and Globalization Sin…

Forces of LaborWorkers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Beverly J. Silver
The Johns Hopkins University
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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.

• Recasts debates about the contemporary crisis of labor movements
in a long-term global perspective • Introduces a major new database
on labor unrest events worldwide from 1870 to the present • Shows
how the successive relocation of manufacturing capital to lower-wage
areas in the twentieth century tended to create movements in each site

Contents

List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1.
Introduction; 2. Labor movements and capital mobility; 3. Labor
movements and product cycles; 4. Labor movements and world politics;
5. Contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspectives;
Appendices; References; Index.

Prize Winner

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological
Association - Winner

Distinguished Book Award, Political Economy of the World System
section, American Sociological Association Honourable Mention, 2005
Sociology of Labor Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements section of
the American Sociological Association - Winner

Honourable Mention, 2005 Sociology of Labor Book Award, Labor and
Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association -
Honourable mention

Review

‘… a thought-provoking and valuable work …’ New Left Review