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Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work

Edited by Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore and Ursula Apitzsch

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781839106576
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Class, labour and the global working class , pp 34-42 Downloads
Ronaldo Munck
Ch 2 Imperialism and labour under neo-liberal globalization , pp 43-52 Downloads
Prabhat Patnaik and Utsa Patnaik
Ch 3 Reserve army, surplus population, classes of labour , pp 53-63 Downloads
Henry Bernstein
Ch 4 Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work , pp 64-73 Downloads
Alessandra Mezzadri
Ch 5 Unfree labour in the 21st century? , pp 74-82 Downloads
Siobhán McGrath
Ch 6 World-system, production, and labour , pp 83-93 Downloads
Manuela Boatcă
Ch 7 The proletariat and the revolution , pp 94-111 Downloads
Marcel van der Linden
Ch 8 Analysing the labour process and the global political economy of work , pp 113-125 Downloads
Kendra Briken
Ch 9 Exploitation and global value chains , pp 126-136 Downloads
Benjamin Selwyn, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Elena Baglioni, Satoshi Miyamura and Jonathan Pattenden
Ch 10 Rural-urban circuits of labour in the Global South: reflections on accumulation and social reproduction , pp 137-147 Downloads
Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros
Ch 11 Commoning labour power , pp 149-160 Downloads
Dario Azzellini
Ch 12 Social and solidarity economy and self-management , pp 161-171 Downloads
Marcelo Vieta and Ana Inés Heras
Ch 13 Operaismo: in search of the political economy of subjectivity , pp 172-178 Downloads
Gigi Roggero
Ch 14 The global gig economy: towards a planetary labour market? , pp 179-197 Downloads
Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar
Ch 15 Workersorganisation, class and collective action in precarious times , pp 198-208 Downloads
Maurizio Atzeni
Ch 16 Workers and labour movements in the fight against climate change , pp 209-218 Downloads
Linda Clarke and Melahat Sahin-Dikmen
Ch 17 Sustainable work: national perspectives and the valorisation of work in Europe , pp 219-230 Downloads
Dario Azzellini, Sebastian Brandl and Ingo Matuschek
Ch 18 Understanding the global political economy of work: insights from labor geography , pp 232-240 Downloads
Andrew Herod
Ch 19 COVID-19, divisions of labor, and workers struggles in the United States: insights from anthropology , pp 241-251 Downloads
Sharryn Kasmir
Ch 20 Global labour history - its promises and hazards , pp 252-265 Downloads
Stefano Bellucci
Ch 21 How the field of industrial relations remains relevant for understanding the global political economy of work , pp 266-278 Downloads
Heather Connolly
Ch 22 Capture, coexistence and valorization of workers mobility across borders , pp 280-291 Downloads
Claudia Bernardi
Ch 23 Periphery-core migrations and the global capitalist agriculture , pp 292-301 Downloads
Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau
Ch 24 Migrant work exploitation and resistance in the Italian countryside: precarious lives between violence and agency , pp 302-311 Downloads
Monica Massari
Ch 25 Extractive humanitarianism: unpaid labour and participatory detention in refugees governmentality , pp 312-321 Downloads
Martina Tazzioli
Ch 26 Problems in protections for working data subjects: becoming strangers to ourselves , pp 323-339 Downloads
Phoebe V Moore
Ch 27 Intensification of labour value extraction under artificial intelligence , pp 340-350 Downloads
Baruch Gottlieb
Ch 28 Class composition in the digitalised gig economy , pp 351-359 Downloads
Jamie Woodcock
Ch 29 Resistance and struggle in the gig economy , pp 360-370 Downloads
Vincenzo Maccarrone, Lorenzo Cini and Arianna Tassinari
Ch 30 Deskilling and diminishing workers autonomy in the digital workplace , pp 371-379 Downloads
Saori Shibata
Ch 31 Exploring the economics of the gig economy: legal arbitrage and employment law , pp 380-390 Downloads
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Ch 32 Surrogacy as commodified transnational care work , pp 392-400 Downloads
Ursula Apitzsch
Ch 33 Global political economy of care and gender - crisis, extractivism and contestation , pp 401-411 Downloads
Christa Wichterich
Ch 34 Aging societies and migrant labour force in elderly care: the German case , pp 412-421 Downloads
Maria Kontos and Minna K. Ruokonen-Engler
Ch 35 Questioning social reproduction theory: North African working-class migrants in France and their families , pp 422-432 Downloads
Catherine Delcroix
Ch 36 Towards a global political economy of sexwork: evidence of Argentina and Costa Rica , pp 433-443 Downloads
Kate Hardy and Megan Rivers-Moore
Ch 37 Trade unions (ism), social movements and the community: connections and politics , pp 445-457 Downloads
Miguel Mart'nez Lucio
Ch 38 Global unions and transnational labor movement , pp 458-470 Downloads
Julia Soul and Cecilia Anigstein
Ch 39 Evolving forms of organizing workers in the informal economy , pp 471-484 Downloads
Jeemol Unni
Ch 40 The power and politics of precarious resistance , pp 485-494 Downloads
Marcel Paret
Ch 41 Spatial dimensions of strikes , pp 495-502 Downloads
Jörg Nowak
Ch 42 Feminist strike, social reproduction, and debt , pp 503-511 Downloads
Verónica Gago and Luc'a Cavallero
Ch 43 The political economy of extractivism and social struggles in Latin America , pp 512-521 Downloads
Tomás Palmisano and Juan Wahren
Ch 44 Exhaust and switch: labour and the garment industry in global production networks , pp 523-535 Downloads
Nikolaus Hammer
Ch 45 Imperialism and labour: palm industry in the territories of Black communities in the border areas of Colombia and Ecuador (Tumaco-San Lorenzo) , pp 536-545 Downloads
Edna Yiced Mart'nez
Ch 46 Skilled migration, productive forces and the development question in the era of generalized monopolies , pp 546-558 Downloads
Ra√∫l Delgado Wise and Mateo Crossa Niell
Ch 47 Major trends in work at sea: outline of a political economy of maritime labour , pp 559-569 Downloads
Jörn Boewe
Ch 48 Counter-logistics in Po valley region , pp 570-579 Downloads
Niccolò Cuppini
Ch 49 The political economy of labor informality in India: trends, theories and politics , pp 581-590 Downloads
Supriya RoyChowdhury
Ch 50 Informalization of labor in contemporary China , pp 591-601 Downloads
Jenny Chan
Ch 51 Precariousness and push-back: capital circuits, labour markets and working-class politics in South Africa , pp 603-613 Downloads
Bridget Kenny
Ch 52 Work and exploitation in Ethiopia and beyond , pp 614-624 Downloads
Samuel Andreas Admasie
Ch 53 Working-class conditions and resistances in the context of austerity in Argentina , pp 626-641 Downloads
Lucila D'Urso and Clara Marticorena
Ch 54 Chile - between Pinochets neoliberal counter-revolution and the 2019-20 anti-neoliberal revolt , pp 642-659 Downloads
Miguel Urrutia and Fernando Durán-Palma
Ch 55 Brazil: inequalities, labour exploitation and new informalization processes , pp 660-670 Downloads
Ludmila Costhek Ab'lio

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