In Search of the Global Labor Market

Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp, Anna Zaharieva (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-925-1 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses pertinent questions related to cross-border labor migration and puts forward a "labor market" perspective that goes beyond the national frame of reference prevailing in most of the extant labor market scholarship.

In four sections, the volume pulls together a number of key threads: How can we theoretically grasp "global labor markets?" What does existing empirical research reveal about the current state of affairs and the historical development of "global labor markets", provided that they can even be regarded as "global?" How is the emergence of border-crossing labor markets influenced by existing institutions, international intermediaries and social networks? The editors have crafted a coherent volume that enriches our understanding of both globalization and labor markets.

Contributors include: Patrik Aspers, Peter-Paul Banziger, Martin Buhler, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman, Sven Kesselring, Eleonore Kofman, Ursula Mense-Petermann, Sigrid Quack, Alexandra Scheele, Helen Schwenken, Karen Shire, Marcel van der Linden, Thomas Welskopp, Tobias Werron, and Anna Zaharieva

Ursula Mense-Petermann is a Professor of Economic Sociology and the Sociology of Work at Bielefeld University, Germany. Recent publications include articles in Global Networks , Journal of Industrial Relations and critical perspectives on international business. Thomas Welskopp was a Professor for the History of Modern Societies. His research interests were on labor and labor movement history, comparative history of capitalism, political culture and social movements, and theoretical problems in history. Anna Zaharieva is a Professor of Labor Economics at Bielefeld University, Germany. She gained her PhD from the University of Konstanz. Recent publications include articles in The International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics and Labour Economics.

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction In Search of the Global Labor Market: Conceptual Meanings, Empirical Evidence and Open Questions

Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva

part 1

What Is Meant by Labor Exchanged in Labor Markets?

Introduction to Part 1 What Is Meant by Labor Exchanged in Labor Markets?

Richard Hyman and Thomas Welskopp

1 Labor Markets in History A Global View

Marcel van der Linden

2 Free Wage Labor as the Most System-Relevant Mode for Allocating Work under Capitalism

Thomas Welskopp

3 Reflections on Violence Some Contradictions of 'Free Labor'

Richard Hyman

4 The Role of Gender in the Making of Global Labor Markets

Alexandra Scheele

part 2

The Market Concept and Its Heuristic Potential

Introduction to Part 2 The Market Concept and Its Heuristic Potential

Peter-Paul Banziger and Ursula Mense-Petermann

5 What Is Unique about Labor Markets?

Patrik Aspers

6 The Contributions and Limits of Market Theory for the Study of Labor Markets

Karen Shire

7 An Object of Analysis Rather Than a Research Tool The Coproduction of Labor Markets and Nation States in the Decades around 1900

Peter-Paul Banziger

8 Analytical Capacities and "Blind Spots" of the Market Concept in Analyzing Cross-Border Labor Migration

Ursula Mense-Petermann and Helen Schwenken

part 3

What Enables Labor to Cross Borders?

Introduction to Part 3 What Enables Labor to Cross Borders?

Sven Kesselring and Karen Shire

9 The Role of Social Networks for Job Search in National and Transnational Labor Markets

Anna Zaharieva

10 Transnational Labor Markets and the Role of Market Makers-The Case of Eastern European Service Contract Workers in the German Meat Industry

Ursula Mense-Petermann

11 Emergence and Demise of Labor Market Institutions A Transnational Perspective

Sigrid Quack

part 4

What Is the Global in Labor Markets?

Introduction to Part 4 What Is the Global in Labor Markets?

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Eleonore Kofman

12 Scales and Spaces of Global Labor Markets

Eleonore Kofman

13 Global Institutions and Governance

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick

14 What Is Global about Global Markets? A Historical Sociological Approach

Martin Buhler and Tobias Werron

Concluding Remarks and Avenues for Future Research

Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-64259-925-5 / 1642599255
ISBN-13	978-1-64259-925-1 / 9781642599251
Zustand	Neuware