Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a
major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have
been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the
late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global
industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have
shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical
location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted
over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist
development and demonstrates that labor movements