Robin Cohen

Contested Domains (eBook, PDF)

Debates in International Labour Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, and international migrants. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory, new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003822578
• Artikelnr.: 69012640

Autorenporträt

Robin Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford. For the first decade of his academic career, he worked on comparative labour issues. His books included Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1974) and the co-edited collections The development of an African working class (1975), International Labour and the Third World (1987), African Labor History (1978) and the current title, Peasants and Proletarians. He subsequently wrote on the themes of migration, globalization and diasporas. His best-known work is Global diasporas: An introduction (3rd edition, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Theorising International Labour 2. Workers in Developing Societies 3.
Work, Culture and the Dialectics of Proletarian Habituation (with Jeff
Henderson) 4. The Control and Habituation of Agricultural Workers in the US
5. Peasants to Workers and Peasant-Workers in Africa 6. Resistance and
Hidden Forms of Consciousness Amongst African Workers 7. The Revolutionary
Potential of the 'Lumpenproletariat': A Sceptical View from Africa (with
David Michael) 8. The 'New' International Division of Labour: A Conceptual,
Historical and Empirical Critique 9. Citizens, Denizens and Helots: The
Politics of International Migration Flows in the Post-War World.