This collection of essays provides new insight into the complex realities of labour and
employment market globalisation. The pluridisciplinary and multi-faced understanding of
globalisation is based upon ground research in ten countries from South to North. Its
contextualisation of globalising labour and employment market perceived as process
constitutes the originality of the book. Globalisation is understood through a single process
of both standardisation and differentiation which also underscores its political agenda. The
globalising process incorporates trends of convergent and somewhat undifferentiated Southern
and Northern situations in labour and employment. Strong political perspectives thereby emerge
to help understand changes in current capitalism and question the longstanding North to South
paradigm. As labour and employment markets standardise and differentiate what other
problematical threads can be pulled to strengthen the hypothesis that trends converge within a
single globalising process? The comparative concepts and tools proposed in this volume help to
answer these queries.
