The Shifting Ground of Globalization : : Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. / / Thiago Aguiar.

• Superior document: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023
• VerfasserIn: Aguiar, Thiago,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023.; Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 239/21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 pages)

The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction. Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acronyms
• Introduction  Walking on Shifting Ground
• 1 A Period of Crisis and the General Direction of Change
• 2 Global Capitalism, Transnational Capital and Labor: An Approach
• 3 Framing Multi-situated Social Phenomena: Global Production Networks ( gpn  s), Corporate Strategies, and International Trade Union Networks
• 4 Some Methodological Notes: Ethnographic Inspiration and the ‘Extended Case Method’
• 1 From  Companhia Vale do Rio Doce to Vale S.A.
• 1 The cvrd ’s Privatization and the Internationalization Leap
• 2 The Mineral Commodity Boom and Post-boom
• 3 Changes and Continuity in the Strategy for Labor and Union Relations after Privatization
• 4 Some Characteristics of Vale’s Iron Ore gpn in Brazil
• 2 Corporate Power and Union Fragmentation  Vale’s Labor and Union Relations Strategy in Brazil
• 1 Entering the Field in a Period of Crisis
• 2 Collective Power Weakened
• 3 The First Driver of the Carajás Railroad
• 4 Employee Representation in Vale’s Board of Directors
• 5 The Challenges of Entering Carajás
• 6 “It’s Always Good to Know Who You’re Talking To”
• 3 Vale Buys a Canadian Treasure  Restructuring, Strike, and International Trade Union Network
• 1 “The Great Canadian Mining Non-disaster”
• 2 A Brazilian Mother-in-Law for the Orphans of “Mother Inco”
• 3 A Powerful Multinational Union with Deep Local Roots
• 4 “It Can’t Be Easy to Have Me as a Boss”
• 5 Defeat or Victory?
• 6 Vale’s International Trade Union Network: A Frustrated Experience
• 4 Global Capitalism, Pension Funds and Vale’s ‘New Corporate Governance’ as a Manner of Conclusion
• 1 The Pension Funds and the Control of Vale after Privatization
• 2 The Relationship with the Federal Government and the Role of bndes in the Company’s Financial Strategy
• 3 Pension Funds and the Transnationalization of Vale
• 4 Vale’s ‘New Corporate Governance’ after the Commodity Boom: Reorientation of Pension Funds and Increased Presence of Transnational Investors
• Epilogue  Vale S.A., a Transnational Corporation on the Shifting Ground of Globalization
• Bibliography
• Index.