The Politics of Labor in a Global Age Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age is one of the first works to analyseand compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations acrosslate-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features originaland timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associatedwith 'globalization' as unions in late-developing countries engaged in economicliberalization and as unions in post-socialist economies cope with thedismantling of command economies. The authors reveal that globalization hasweakened organized labour, they also show that distinct national and regionallabour institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures.Globalization may even facilitate variation in the pattern of labour relations,at national, local, and workplace levels, within and across late-industrializingand post-socialist settings.