Full Description
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 Bänziger, Martin Bühler, 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.
Contents
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 Bänziger 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 Bänziger
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 Bühler and Tobias Werron
Concluding Remarks and Avenues for Future Research
Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva
Index
