Global Labor Trends in the White Goods Industry: Case Studies from Africa, South America, East Asia & Europe | Future of Work Research | Workplace Analysis for Business Leaders & Policy Makers

This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of countries - China, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey - it makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of the diffusion of management methods, the role of the state in employee relations, the nature of trade unionism and the impact of social structure on production relations.