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Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization

The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization( )
Editor: Berberoglu, Berch
Contribution by: Adler, Marina A.
Bina, Cyrus
Davis, Chuck
Fox, Julia
Gartman, David
Katz-Fishman, Walda
Leggett, John C.
Lembcke, Jerry
Modupe, Ife
Parker, Robert B.
Prechel, Harland
Scott, Jerome
Yaghmaian, Behzad
ISBN:978-0-7425-1660-1
Publication Date:Dec 2001
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $161.00
Book Description:

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies--from auto to steel to agriculture--as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new...
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Robert Brown Parker is an American fiction writer of mysteries. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and earned his BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He went on to earn his master's degree in English literature from Boston University. He started his career working in advertising. After some years, he went back to school to earn his PhD in English from Boston University in 1971. He then began his writng career while teaching at Northeastern University. He decided to become a full-time writer in 1979. His most popular works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. The ABC Television Network developed the television series "Spenser: For Hire", based on the character in the mid-1980s. Parker also wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall.

On January 18, 2010, Robert Parker died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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