Labour: From national resistance to international politics

Stevis, Dimitris; Boswell, Terry

doi:10.1080/13563469708406287

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“…Examples from OECD countries are the prolonged public sector strikes in France in 1995, as well as labour action in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Germany. 46 Even in the US, in spite of the notoriously weak and accommodating unions that emerged from the Cold War, Kim Moody nds that "there are, then, signs that a leaner, meaner capitalism is bringing with it a new labor consciousness and militancy." 47 The working class in developing countries has also responded aggressively to the implementation of austerity programmes: a recent general strike in Nigeria was sparked off by the government's decision to raise fuel prices after the IMF had pressured it to deregulate the oil industry, in return promising a $1 billion standby loan.…”

Section: Indications Of a Crisis Of Legitimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalisation, Legitimacy, and Pacification: The Emergence of a Global Welfare Regime

Mueller¹

2001

New Political Science

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The globalisation-induced rollback of social expenditures, and the concomitant increase in inequality and unemployment in developed as well as developing countries, are leading to a crisis of legitimacy for the national capitalist state and the capitalist system as whole. It is argued that the global capitalist class will attempt to offset this crisis of legitimacy through the development of a "global welfare regime" to perform the functions that the nation-state is increasingly unable to ful l, namely, those of pacifying populations through the handing out of material and symbolic rewards. This article will formulate a working de nition of legitimacy, show that this legitimacy is being threatened by globalisation, and then present empirical support for this hypothesis of a crisis of legitimacy. Finally, it will analyse in detail the policies of the international governmental organisations that are predicted to constitute a global welfare regime, showing that they are moving to shore up the faltering stability of unregulated global capitalism.

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Section: Indications Of a Crisis Of Legitimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalisation, Legitimacy, and Pacification: The Emergence of a Global Welfare Regime

Mueller¹

2001

New Political Science

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“…And, of course, labour has been a primary source of resistance Louise Amoore -9781526137418 Downloaded from manchesteropenhive.com at 06/07/2019 03:01:43AM via free access and contestation to globalisation (see O'Brien, 2000;Stevis and Boswell, 1997). However, the role of labour in defining globalisation is somewhat more contradictory than a simple resistance strategy.…”

Section: Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So, for example, Cox's (1971) early work on labour and transnational relations directly equates labour with national trade union organisations. More recently, organised labour has become a focus for the analysis of potential strategies of resistance to neo-liberal restructuring and globalisation (see Stevis and Boswell, 1997;O'Brien, 1997;IILS, 1999a).…”

Section: Social Power Relations Within the Firmmentioning

confidence: 99%