Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization or Imperial Germany 1850 1918

Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization: The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work In

Author: Berch Berberoglu

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and class. The contributors explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under glabalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy.

Author Biography: Berch Berberoglu is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Ten contributions from scholars and activists discuss the political economy of the labor process in the age of global capitalism, examining how the global economy effects ordinary people in the workplace. Topics include, for example, the struggle for control at the point of production, the division of labor along racial lines in U.S. agriculture, and women and resistance in the transnational labor force. Editor Berberoglu teaches sociology at the U. of Nevada, Reno. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction: The Political Economy of the Labor Process in the Age of Globalization	1
1	Labor and Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century	11
2	Labor, Capital, and the Struggle for Control at the Point of Production	29
3	The Labor Process and the Transformation of Corporate Control in the Global Economy	51
4	Working Women and the Dynamics of Power at Work	69
5	Race, Nationality, and the Division of Labor in U.S. Agriculture	87
6	The Global Economy and Changes in the Nature of Contingent Work	107
7	The Political Economy of Global Accumulation and Its Emerging Mode of Regulation	125
8	Women's Work and Resistance in the Global Economy	145
9	Dynamics of Globalization: Transnational Capital and the International Labor Movement	163
10	Globalization of Capital and Class Struggle	179
	Bibliography	195
	Index	209
	About the Contributors	217
	About the Editor	221

Interesting book: The Swedish Table or West Coast Cooking

Imperial Germany, 1850-1918

Author: Edgar Feuchtwanger

The German Empire was founded in triumph in 1871 and crashed in disaster at the end of the First World War. Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide of economic and social background, culture and foreign policy. It explores the tension caused within an empire that was formed through war, against the prevailing liberal spirit of the age.

* Recent debates on the topic are made accessible to English-speaking readers, and the book summarizes the important controversies and competing interpretations of imperial German history. This important study poses many questions:

* Was the desire to unify Germany the cause of the aggressive foreign policy leading to the First World War?
* To what extent was Bismarck's Second Reich the forerunner of Hitler's Third?
* Did Bismarck's authoritarian rule permanently hinder the political development of Germany?

Chronologically structured, ImperialGermany provides indispensable background reading on an important chapter in German history.