*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize,awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and LaborMovements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labourinternationalism in response to the growing insecurity created byglobalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecuritythey often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign ofhope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others areattempting to globalize their own struggles.
* Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism isemerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather thanassertion
* Analyzes three distinct places - Orange, Australia;Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa - and howthey dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring
* Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity andexamines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements tosuch insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-nationalcorporations, and worker responses to this, connect the twoconcepts