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

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