Richard Münch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker solidarity as it moves from collective national welfare to a transnational inclusion of workers from various links in the production chain.

Introduction: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Emerging World Society 1. Economic Change: From Incremental to Radical Innovation 2. The Change of Solidarity: The Causes and Consequences of International Labour Division 3. Symbolic Change: The New Cult of the Individual 4. Institutional Change: Liberal, Conservative and Egalitarian Adjustment to International Labour Division 5. Relative Exclusion and Disintegration: Convergence in the Liberal Competition State? Conclusion: The Interdependent Change of Economy, Solidarity, Politics and Justice