Globalization and Class Analysis: Prospects for Labour Movement Influence in Global Governance**/Globalisierung Und Klassenanalyse. Einflußmöglichkeiten Der Arbeiterbewegung in Der Global Governance

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World order structures class relations, and vice-versa, so a shift from a world ordered around insular nationally based capitalist systems to a single integrated global production system and market implies a shift from national to global and transnational classes. Capitalist hegemony has been built on capitalist hegemony in individual nation states, involving the incorporation of subordinate actors into national class compromises. These class compromises are now undermined by globalization. Capitalism has difficulty reestablishing its hegemony on a global scale because labour's global weakness prevents the working class from being integrated as a subordinate actor in a new global "historic bloc."

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Globalization and Class Analysis: Prospects for Labour Movement Influence in Global Governance**/Globalisierung Und Klassenanalyse. Einflußmöglichkeiten Der Arbeiterbewegung in Der Global Governance

Class struggle and world order

The transnatdonalization of production provides the material basis on which new transnational classes and global politics are built. Some have argued that labour's weakness when faced with capital mobility is not fundamentally new, but rather just another shift in the locus of the "core" of the world system, to new and cheaper locations (Silver 2003). While there undoubtedly has been a shift in production locations, globalization changes more than just the places where things are made. Transnational production also changes the nature of the interstate system, altering power hierarchies within and between states, and providing a shifting new terrain of class conflict. Nation states may not be disappearing as such, but they are becoming less insular, and less able to maintain the national class compromises on which capitalist hegemony in the advanced industrialized world was built.

To understand the capacities and limitations of the global labour movement, one must understand transnational class formation. Workers and capitalists everywhere are embedded in the world order, whether they like it or not, or indeed whether they know it or not. World order structures class relations, and vice-versa, so a shift from a world ordered around insular nationally based capitalist systems to a single integrated global production system and market implies a shift from national to global and transnational classes. Capitalist hegemony in the world order has been built on capitalist hegemony in individual nation states, involving the incorporation of subordinate actors into national class compromises (Cox 1987). On the global level, the working class is fragmented along national lines, and relies on thin and mediated transnational contacts; as a result of this class structure, its transnational capacities are weak. Capitalism has difficulty reestablishing its hegemony on a global scale because of the fundamentally weakened position of labour, and because...

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