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. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy.

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 globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy.

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction: The Political Economy of the Labor Process in the Age of Globalization
Chapter 3 1: Labor and Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4 2: Labor, Capital, and the Struggle for Control at the Point of Production
Chapter 5 3: The Labor Process and the Transformation of Corporate Control in the Global Economy
Chapter 6 4: Working Women and the Dynamics of Power at Work
Chapter 7 5: Race, Nationality, and the Division of Labor in U.S. Agriculture
Chapter 8 6: The Global Economy and Changes in the Nature of Contingent Work
Chapter 9 7: The Political Economy of Global Accumulation and Its Emerging Mode of Regulation
Chapter 10 8: Women's Work and Resistance in the Global Economy
Chapter 11 9: Dynamics of Globalization: Transnational Capital and the International Labor Movement
Chapter 12 10: Globalization of Capital and Class Struggle
Part 13 Bibliography
Part 14 About the Contributors
Part 15 About the Editor
Part 16 Index