Forces of labor : workers' movements and globalization since 1870

By Beverly J. Silver. 2003

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The Industrial Determinants of Transnational Solidarity: Global Interunion Politics in Three Sectors (2006, background): “The globalization of capital may, as a result, translate into localized worker unrest rather than the creation of a global labour movement (Silver, 2003).”
The New Geography of Work (2008, background): “So, too, the bargaining power of labor gets relocated and, sooner or later, asserts itself in a variety of ways (Silver, 2003).”
Trade unions and climate change : The jobs versus environment dilemma (2011, background): “While there is considerable research on technological solutions and macro analyses of the consequences of environmental measures on employment, trade unions, as one of the principal social actors in the production process, have been largely ignored (but see: Labour Studies Journal, 2011).”
The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class (2013, background): “In her longitudinal survey of world labour movements since 1870, Silver (2003) documents the rise of new working class forces in sites of capital investment for the automobile industry in the twentieth century.”
Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy (2018, positive): “Therefore, it is expected that ‘marketplace bargaining power’ – labour demand, skills and alternative non-wage sources of income (Silver, 2003; Wright, 2000) – will be key in determining job quality for remote gig workers.”
The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories (2010, background): “The crisis of the labour movement gave rise to a crisis of Marxism and labour studies (Wright, 1985; Wright et al., 1989; Silver, 2003).”
Financialization, globalization and the making of profits by leading retailers (2012, background): “Moreover, it is characterized by an important proportion of part-time jobs, a mainly female workforce and a low level of unionization, which are characteristics departing from the Fordist capital-labour compromise and limiting Fordist-style mobilization (Silver, 2003; Glyn, 2006).”
Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers (2019, background): “…but are hidden from the them, e.g. the use of closed Facebook groups and WhatsApp messages.7 For Silver, analysing ‘anonymous or hidden forms of struggle. . . where strikes are illegal and open confrontation difficult or impossible’, are just as important as open resistance (Silver, 2003: 35).”
The Financialization of the American Economy (2005, positive): “…how processes associated with financialization might have eroded the ‘social pact’between capital and labour that provided crucial support for the welfare state during much of the post-war period—even, perhaps, more effectively than capital mobility per se (Silver, 2003; Silver and Arrighi,2001).”
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy (2020, background): “Platforms, therefore, rely on inter-worker competition (Peck, 1996) and deploy ‘process’ fixes (Silver, 2003) to secure labour effort and to shape supply and demand in the labour market.”
Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa (2020, neutral): “Structural power is further divided into marketplace bargaining power (power derived by workers due to tight labour markets and shortage of skills) and workplace bargaining power (power derived through the position of workers in the production process) (Silver, 2003).”
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, background): “It remains to be seen whether the platform model will gain sufficient legitimacy to become a leading industry (Silver 2003), providing a template for the organization of work beyond the boundaries of the platform economy itself.”