Labour Conflicts in the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bieler, Andreas; Nowak, Jörg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilisation witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000581157
• Artikelnr.: 63415576

Autorenporträt

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham University, UK. His latest book is Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (2021). Jörg Nowak is Visiting Professor at the Postgraduate Program of Environment and Rural Development at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. His latest book is Mass Strike and Social Movements in Brazil and India (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Labour conflicts in the Global South: an introduction 1. From industrial relations research to Global Labour Studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism 2. Workers' organizations and the fetishism of the trade union form: toward new pathways for research on the labour movement? 3. Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities 4. Solidarity across boundaries: a new practice of collectivity among workers in the app-based transport sector in Indonesia 5. Turning left: student-worker alliance in labour struggles in China 6. A gendered labour geography perspective on the Cambodian garment workers' general strike of 2013/2014 7. Becoming 'active labour protestors': women workers organizing in India's garment export factories 8. Overcoming 'small peasant mentality': semi-proletarian struggles and working-class formation in China 9. Revisiting the 'boomerang effect': the international relations of the trade unions in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule 10. Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?