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• 04 May 08
  

  Arabica Robusta

  Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor aims to engage with current debates in labour studies by examining labour unrest internationally since the late 1800s. Silver, a proponent of the world systems theory approach associated with the Fernand Braudel Centre and its Review, uses a world-historical theoretical perspective and empirical data to move beyond the focus on the late 20th century of most writing about labour and globalization.

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• 18 Mar 08
  

  cdetrio da juggaer

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  • Beverly J Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003).<!--_/biblio_-->

       <!--_text_noindent_-->WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENTS in many countries have experienced serious setbacks and defeats since the mid-1970s. Most remain on the defensive, though the international wave of resistance to neo-liberalism has led to significant mass strikes and protests in Western Europe and Latin America. For some, labour's retreat and the real and alleged changes in global capitalism subsumed under the term "globalization" justify bidding farewell to workers' movements as a force for social change or even to class itself. Although few readers of this journal are likely to agree, important questions remain about the future of labour movements.

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