Language of dissent: globalisation, resistance, labour.

• Main Author: Yeo, Heng Hwee.
• Other Authors: Nesadurai, Helen
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14405
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The language of dissent is labour’s language of resistance to the neoliberal project of economic globalisation. In asking the central question of whether labour can succeed in resisting globalisation, the dissertation argues that it is possible. However, this optimism is framed with conditions. The...