The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.

Description: The Shifting Ground of Globalization by Thiago Aguiar, William I. Robinson The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction.Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in places as different as Carajs, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Thiago Aguiar dialogues with the theories of global capitalism and takes the case of the largest Latin American company as a telling example of the integration of the Brazilian economy into capitalist globalization and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century-when many celebrated the BRICS as an alternative to neoliberal globalization. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Thiago Aguiar holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of So Paulo, and was visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at IFCH-Unicamp and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic-USP). He is also the author of O solo movedico da globalizaco: trabalho e extraco mineral na Vale S.A. and Maquiando o trabalho: opacidade e transparencia numa empresa de cosmeticos global. Table of Contents AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAcronymsIntroduction Walking on Shifting Ground 1 A Period of Crisis and the General Direction of Change 2 Global Capitalism, Transnational Capital and Labor: An Approach 3 Framing Multi-situated Social Phenomena: Global Production Networks ( gpn s), Corporate Strategies, and International Trade Union Networks 4 Some Methodological Notes: Ethnographic Inspiration and the Extended Case Method1 From Companhia Vale do Rio Doce to Vale S.A. 1 The cvrd s Privatization and the Internationalization Leap 2 The Mineral Commodity Boom and Post-boom 3 Changes and Continuity in the Strategy for Labor and Union Relations after Privatization 4 Some Characteristics of Vales Iron Ore gpn in Brazil2 Corporate Power and Union Fragmentation Vales Labor and Union Relations Strategy in Brazil 1 Entering the Field in a Period of Crisis 2 Collective Power Weakened 3 The First Driver of the Carajás Railroad 4 Employee Representation in Vales Board of Directors 5 The Challenges of Entering Carajás 6 "Its Always Good to Know Who Youre Talking To"3 Vale Buys a Canadian Treasure Restructuring, Strike, and International Trade Union Network 1 "The Great Canadian Mining Non-disaster" 2 A Brazilian Mother-in-Law for the Orphans of "Mother Inco" 3 A Powerful Multinational Union with Deep Local Roots 4 "It Cant Be Easy to Have Me as a Boss" 5 Defeat or Victory? 6 Vales International Trade Union Network: A Frustrated Experience4 Global Capitalism, Pension Funds and Vales New Corporate Governance as a Manner of Conclusion 1 The Pension Funds and the Control of Vale after Privatization 2 The Relationship with the Federal Government and the Role of bndes in the Companys Financial Strategy 3 Pension Funds and the Transnationalization of Vale 4 Vales New Corporate Governance after the Commodity Boom: Reorientation of Pension Funds and Increased Presence of Transnational InvestorsEpilogue Vale S.A., a Transnational Corporation on the Shifting Ground of GlobalizationBibliographyIndex Promotional •Email campaign to Haymarkets growing number of mailing list subscribers•Promotion to the subscribers and supporters of the journal from which the book series derives•Academic marketing campaign to scholars in relevant fields, aiming to specifically target professors likely to assign the book to students•Reviews in relevant academic and left journals and periodicals•Virtual launch events bringing together authors and contributors from across the globe to the 35k subscribers to Haymarkets YouTube channel•Display and promotion at relevant academic and left conferences and events Details ISBN Author William I. Robinson Publisher Haymarket Books Format Paperback AU Release Date 2024-07-23 Pages 306 Series Studies in Critical Social Sciences Year 2024 ISBN-13 9798888902240 Publication Date 2024-04-16 Imprint Haymarket Books Subtitle Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-04-16 Place of Publication Chicago DEWEY 338.20981 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159878630;

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