The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work

ISBN-13: 9780367891176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Nick Bernards

Opis

This book argues that standard employment relations have always co-existed with a plethora of different labour regimes and highlights the importance of the governance of irregular forms of labour.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: Irregular Labour in Global Capitalism Chapter 2: The Governance of Forced Labour and the Antinomies of Colonialism Chapter 3: Urbanization, Colonial Crisis, and Social Policy Chapter 4: Irregular Work in the Postcolonial Social Order: The ILO Discovers the ‘Informal’ Chapter 5: Neoliberal Crises and the Politics of Informality Chapter 6: Reviving the Governance of Forced Labour: ‘Traditional Slavery’ and Child Trafficking in West Africa Conclusion

O autorze

Nick Bernards is Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick