Thursday, 13 August 2009

An academic from The University of Western Australia has co-authored a book that analyses workers' responses to work restructuring in three fridge factories based in three places - Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa - and has won an international prize.

Grounding Globalisation:  Labour in the Age of Insecurity by UWA's Professor Rob Lambert and Professors Edward Webster and Andries Bezuidenhout from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg received this year's best book award from the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section.

The committee unanimously agreed that the book represented the most distinguished contribution in a field of more than 30 on themes related to the sociology of work.

The book explains how some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic, while others see their struggles as part of global change.

Professor Lambert is teaching in Employment Relations at UWA's Business School and is the Director of the Australian Global Studies Research Centre.

The Centre is hosting an international forum, Impacts of Globalisation , at UWA today.

For more information, visit https://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/sections/section_pages/section_on_labor_and_labor_movements

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Professor Rob Lambert (+61 8)  6488 2934
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716

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