Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural
resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot
be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the
very simple reason that working people have sentience.
Whilst a
business might seek to employ workers in much the same way as it does
any other resource, unlike these other resources labor is capable of
altering its own conditions of existence and so of challenging how it is
used by others. In this book, Andrew Herod offers an original and
wide-ranging analysis of labor as a multi-faceted and truly global
resource. Opening with a rich overview of the migration streams and
demographic trends that have shaped the planetary distribution of labor,
he goes on to explore how globalization and the growth of precarious
work are impacting working people's lives.
A wide range of
examples is examined to illustrate the ongoing struggles faced by
workers worldwide from forced labor and child labor in West Africa's
cocoa and southeast Asia's shrimping industries to the labor practices
affecting so-called 'knowledge workers'. Herod concludes by surveying
some of the ways in which working people are taking action to improve
their lives, including forming trade unions and other labor
organizations, occupying factories in places like Argentina and Greece,
and establishing anti-sweatshop campaigns. This book is a must read for
anyone interested in understanding the state of labor in today's global
economy.
Labor - Andrew Herod
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