Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis
The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements find themselves in rather different positions with...
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| description | The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements find themselves in rather different positions with contradictory interests. The purpose of this article is to assess conceptually possible labour strategies towards transnational solidarity against the background of the structuring conditions within the global economy.
The article is organised into two parts. First, the structuring conditions of capitalism will be charted including processes of uneven and combined development. This will provide the basis for the second step of conceptualising the potential agency of labour and its possibilities to establish relationships of transnational solidarity despite the unevenness of global development. In this discussion the definition of ‘labour’ itself will be problematized and concepts of ‘labour aristocracy’ and ‘false consciousness’ critically examined. |
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| spelling | nottingham-351632020-05-04T16:45:41Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35163/ Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis Bieler, Andreas The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements find themselves in rather different positions with contradictory interests. The purpose of this article is to assess conceptually possible labour strategies towards transnational solidarity against the background of the structuring conditions within the global economy. The article is organised into two parts. First, the structuring conditions of capitalism will be charted including processes of uneven and combined development. This will provide the basis for the second step of conceptualising the potential agency of labour and its possibilities to establish relationships of transnational solidarity despite the unevenness of global development. In this discussion the definition of ‘labour’ itself will be problematized and concepts of ‘labour aristocracy’ and ‘false consciousness’ critically examined. Escarpment Press 2014-05-01 Article PeerReviewed Bieler, Andreas (2014) Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis. Global Labour Journal, 5 (2). pp. 114-133. ISSN 1918-6711 Class agency class struggle false consciousness labour aristocracy structuring conditions of global capitalism https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/article/view/1154 doi:10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154 doi:10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154 |
| spellingShingle | Class agency class struggle false consciousness labour aristocracy structuring conditions of global capitalism Bieler, Andreas Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title | Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title_full | Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title_fullStr | Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title_short | Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| title_sort | transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis |
| topic | Class agency class struggle false consciousness labour aristocracy structuring conditions of global capitalism |
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