Bridges and barriers: globalisation and the mobility of work and workers

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Volume 6, Issue 2

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Bridges and barriers: globalisation and the mobility of work and workers

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Autumn 2012

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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This article starts by discussing the global division of labour. To what extent can its spatial patterns be explained by simple economic logic and to what extent is it shaped by specific features of national and local environments and corporate strategies? What factors enable restructuring, and what are the barriers to the mobility both of capital and of labour? It then introduces the articles in this issue, which display the complexity of global value chain restructuring and the ways in which it differs from popular stereotypes, as well as the common patterns that emerge. They show that restructuring is generally an incremental process, rather than a one-off change, involving mutual adaptation and accommodation to local institutional and labour market contexts. These articles do not just explore the degree to which workers consent, or resist, these changes but also look at the impacts of these decisions on the subsequent careers of those who are drawn into new positions in the global division of labour and those who are left behind.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Autumn 2012

Volume: 6

Issue: 2

Pages: 1-7

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DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.6.2.0001

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

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Huws, U. (2012) ‘Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity: new accumulation through public service commodification’, Socialist Register .
Huws, U. (2006) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’, Monthly Review , 57 (10), March.
Huws, U. (2007) ‘Defragmenting: towards a critical understanding of the new global division of labour’, Work organisation, Labour and Globalisation , 1 (2).
Huws, U. (2007) ‘The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation , 1 (2).
Huws, U., J. Flecker, M. Ramioul & K, Guerts (2009) Value chain restructuring in Europe in a global economy , Report from the WORKS project, Leuven: Higher Institute of Labour Studies.
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[1] Braverman H. (1974), Labor and monopoly capital: the degradation of work in the twentieth century, New York: Monthly Review Press.

[2] Huws, U. (2012) ‘Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity: new accumulation through public service commodification’, Socialist Register .

[3] Huws, U. (2006) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’, Monthly Review , 57 (10), March.

[4] Huws, U. (2007) ‘Defragmenting: towards a critical understanding of the new global division of labour’, Work organisation, Labour and Globalisation , 1 (2).

[5] Huws, U. (2007) ‘The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation , 1 (2).

[6] Huws, U., J. Flecker, M. Ramioul & K, Guerts (2009) Value chain restructuring in Europe in a global economy , Report from the WORKS project, Leuven: Higher Institute of Labour Studies.

[7] Marx K. (1861—64), Economic Works of Karl Marx 1861–1864, Capitalist Production as the Production of Surplus Value . Available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/ch02b.htm.

[8] Marx K. (1867), Capital . Available online at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1.

[9] Panitch, L. and S. Gindin The Making of Global Capitalism: the Political Economy of American Empire , London: Verso, 2012.

[10] Ricardo D. (1817), The principles of political economy and taxation . Available online at: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/prin/index.html.

[11] Smith A. (1776), An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations . Available online at: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/prin/index.html.