Labour Conflicts in the Global South
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Labour Conflicts in the Global South
About this book
Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.
This volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization 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. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoing fragmentation of actors, models and strategies? In addressing this question, consideration is given to issues of class as well as gender and race.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 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?
- Index