GlobalisationandLabour.pptVIP

Globalisation and Labour Structure and Objectives of the Lecture To illustrate major changes in the work regime since the 1970s and bring out spatial aspects of these changes To outline the role of trade unions in the contemporary global political economy, the problems these organisations face and possibilities for development of a global labour movement Section One: National (Atlantic) Fordism (were we came from) Section Two: Development of Post-Fordist regime of labour control and its broader implications Section Three: Position of Labour Movements today and the prospects for universal solidarity. Section One Atlantic Fordism What is/was Atlantic Fordism? (1) Particular Method of Organising Production Talyorism (Scientific management) 1911 Between 1898-1902 one third of US manufacturing assets subject to merger Talyorism really only secured in 1940s during WWII Destruction of Autonomy (2) Social Contract (Linked to brutality of work and communism) Job Security Institutionalised representation and rising wages Leisure Time! Increasing Social Wage Links Demand and Supply (Keynesian) (3)Relatively autocentric (4) Way of Life Nuclear Family (The Family Wage). Also capitalist and social democratic dream (both Collective and Individual progress) Grammar School, The extension of universities and polytechnics in the 1960s. Warwick was established to established to service the most aspirations sections of working class and middle class. Different national patterns of exclusion/ inclusion based on gender/race etc. Swedish Fordism relatively inclusive (national level social bargaining), US Fordism less so (a lot workers lay outside the compact) Outside of the ‘Atlantic social area’ Fordism still relevant but as a reality for minority of workers not a general social arrangement (Japan tricky). Elite working class arrangement in Third World. Formally employed workers enjoy tenure. Again a reflection of political logics. Section Two Post-Fordism: Secular crisis in work