European Sociological Review Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2008
European Sociological Review 2009 25(1):73-86; doi:10.1093/esr/jcn056
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How Globalization Has Impacted Labour: A Review Essay
Correspondence: Seymour Spilerman, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Email: ss50{at}columbia.edu
This essay outlines the features of globalization in the current era and indicates how conceptualizations of this process differ from the related formulations of the Annales School and of World Systems Analysis. The main theme of the article is then developed, namely an assessment of the ways that globalization has impacted the organization of work and the structure of employment careers. This assessment is based on results from a variety of recent research studies, especially on findings from the Globalife project.