Labour, the State, Social Movements & the Challenge of Neo-liberal Globalisation

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history, and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organizations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organizations have not gone away and neither has the state, their relationship remains as significant as ever.Gamble, Andrew is the author of 'Labour, the State, Social Movements & the Challenge of Neo-liberal Globalisation ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780719075865 and ISBN 0719075866.