Globalization and class analysis: prospects for labour movement influence in global governance
Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management
2006
13
3
223-237
capitalism ; globalization ; governance ; international relations ; labour movement ; social class
Economic development
English
Bibliogr.
"World order structures class relations, and vice-versa, so a shift from a world ordered around insular nationally based capitalist systems to a single integrated global production system and market implies a shift from national to global and transnational classes. Capitalist hegemony has been built on capitalist hegemony in individual nation states, involving the incorporation of subordinate actors into national class compromises. These class compromises are now undermined by globalization. Capitalism has difficulty reestablishing its hegemony on a global scale because labour's global weakness prevents the working class from being integrated as a subordinate actor in a new global "historic bloc." "
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