Labour Conflicts in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781032211275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 156 str.

Andreas Bieler; Jörg Nowak

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?