Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work

Edited by Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod

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Abstract: Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops; day labour; homework; unpaid contract work of Chinese construction workers; the introduction of insecure contracting in the Korean automotive industry; and the insecurity of Brazilian cane cutters. The editors and contributors then collectively explore trade union initiatives in the face of precarious work and stimulate debate on the issue.

Keywords: Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 9781781954942
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Neoliberalism, precarious work and remaking the geography of global capitalism , pp 1-36

Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert

Ch 2 The growth and organization of a precariat: working in the clothing industry in Johannesburg’s inner city , pp 43-71

Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster

Ch 3 Bounded mobilizations: informal unionism and secondary shaming amongst immigrant temp workers in Chicago , pp 72-95

Sébastien Chauvin

Ch 4 Home-based work and new ways of organizing in the era of globalization , pp 96-124

Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate

Ch 5 Constructing violence and resistance: the political economy of the construction industry and labour subcontracting system in post-socialist China , pp 125-147

Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin

Ch 6 Nature and insecurity in South Africa , pp 148-165

Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert

Ch 7 At the cutting edge: precarious work in Brazil’s sugar and ethanol industry , pp 166-196

Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto

Ch 8 Organizing across a fragmented labour force: trade union responses to precarious work in Korean auto companies , pp 201-225

Aelim Yun

Ch 9 Closures and openings: the politics of place and space in resisting corporate restructuring , pp 226-254

Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert

Ch 10 Sweatshop citizenship, precariousness and organizing building cleaners , pp 255-276

Luis L. M. Aguiar

Ch 11 Global unions, global framework agreements and the transnational regulation of labour standards , pp 277-302

Mark Thomas

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