Berch Berberoglu is Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Berberoglu has authored and edited thirty two books and many articles in numerous scholarly journals. His areas of specialization are globalization, political economy of development, class analysis, the state, social movements, and social change.

This excellent book opens the mysterious black box called 'globalization' and examines how the global economy has impacted ordinary people in the workplace. The essays included in this book provide important insights on the labor process and modes of work, the impact of globalization on the labor movement, on the terms of class conflict, and on the role of women and minorities in the labor force. This book will be extremely useful not only to faculty, but also for students as a supplementary text in advanced courses in political economy and labor studies.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 Introduction: The Political Economy of the Labor Process in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 3 1: Labor and Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 4 2: Labor, Capital, and the Struggle for Control at the Point of ProductionChapter 5 3: The Labor Process and the Transformation of Corporate Control in the Global EconomyChapter 6 4: Working Women and the Dynamics of Power at WorkChapter 7 5: Race, Nationality, and the Division of Labor in U.S. AgricultureChapter 8 6: The Global Economy and Changes in the Nature of Contingent WorkChapter 9 7: The Political Economy of Global Accumulation and Its Emerging Mode of RegulationChapter 10 8: Women's Work and Resistance in the Global EconomyChapter 11 9: Dynamics of Globalization: Transnational Capital and the International Labor MovementChapter 12 10: Globalization of Capital and Class StrugglePart 13 BibliographyPart 14 About the ContributorsPart 15 About the EditorPart 16 Index