Investigating the Claims of Globalisation and Post-Fordism

Abstract

The previous two chapters have suggested that there are reasons to at least qualify the more abstract characterisations of contemporary socio-economic change. Nevertheless, many of the specific claims of spatial and social dispersal may have serious implications for workers. Capital does seek lower wages and to flee the insubordination of labour (Holloway, 1995). Greater mobility, at least in certain cases, may increase its options and its power (Frieden, 1991). Workers in new industries and smaller workplaces may have weaker traditions and face greater obstacles in building trade unionism.