Global Capital And Peripheral Labour

Author : Ravi Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135196578

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This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and uses the World Systems theory so as to demonstrate the practical utility of the theory and its limitations as a guide to historical research. Based on extensive archival research, the book interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism by focusing on the work, life and struggle of the dalits on plantations in colonial and post-colonial South India as they evolved from the mid-19th century. It argues that these elements of the plantation life-world were fashioned by the specific characteristics of the workers' location within the capitalist world-economy, the then prevailing local social structure and the scheme of disciplining to which the workers were subjected to. Treating the relations among various social forces – the planting communities, the oppressed communities (dalits in India), the regional and national state, and the Imperial regime, this book fills a gap in academic literature on capitalism, economic development, and globalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Globalization
ISBN : OCLC:922017462

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Author : Ravi Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135196585

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Presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. This book shows how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. It focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

Author : Juliet Schor,Jong-Il You
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018255658

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Capital, the State, and Labour by Juliet Schor,Jong-Il You Pdf

This work concerns transformation processes in labour relations and in production systems in the 1980s. It describes new industrial and occupational patterns, as well as technological progress and the implications of the end of the Welfare State. Old practices are assessed.

Author : V. Sujatha
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367546876

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Global Capital and Social Difference by V. Sujatha Pdf

This volume offers insights into ongoing global socioeconomic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that project globalisation as a process driven exclusively by global capital and technology, a scheme in which some parts of the world forever will be 'peripheries' supplying labour and natural resources, the lives and work of those people purged of originality, meaning and value by the very construct that describes them. Together the chapters in the book present a nonessentialist and non-linear reading of global transformations by examining the relations and adaptations between economy, polity and society, which remains a fundamentally unresolved question in the social sciences. Combining a wealth of conceptual and empirical investigations, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, globalisation studies, anthropology, economics, development studies and area studies.

Author : Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350305106

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The Political Economy of Work in the Global South by Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick Pdf

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South. This book characterises the forms of work and labour process that characterise globalising capitalism today and addresses core analytical concerns within Labour Process Theory and research on work in the South. It explores how a wide range of production relations in the Global South, ranging from formal to informal employment and self-employment, are embedded in wider social relations of gender, caste, religion and ethnicity, and are related to wider patterns of commodification and resistance. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book's chapters consider a diverse range of working situations, covering migrant workers in the Middle East, commercial surrogacy work in India and cooperative garment workers in Argentina. In offering a novel reading of the political economy of work in the Global South and shedding light on lesser-considered fields of work and worker organization, this volume will provide new insights for making sense of the changing world of work for students, scholars, labour activists and practitioners alike.

Author : Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813346352

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Labour Questions in the Global South by Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome Pdf

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South. It examines the diverse perspectives and regional and social variations that characterise labour relations as a result of the uneven development which is an important facet of the intensification of capitalist accumulation.. The book provides important insights into the impact of the crises of capitalism on the wellbeing of labour at different historical junctures. Some of the issues covered by it include the conditions of work, and the changing composition of laboring classes and/or working people. The chapters also throw light on the multiple trajectories in the development of labour relations and employment in the Global South, especially after the ascendancy and domination of neoliberal finance capitalism. Some of the major aspects considered by the essays include the decentering of production and development of global value systems, crisis of social reproduction, and the rising informalisation of work.

Author : Ceren Deniz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643914071

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The Formation of Provincial Capital by Ceren Deniz Pdf

This book engages critically with mainstream accounts of ‘Anatolian Tigers’ in contemporary Turkey. Based on her fieldwork in Çorum, Deniz explores the dynamics of medium-size businesses with a dual optic of political economy and moral economy. She demonstrates that the formation of the entrepreneurial stratum is a multifaceted process and zooms into a range of workplaces to show the entanglements of market and non-market dynamics in everyday life. This innovative work sheds original light on the role of kinship, religion and social values in shaping the everyday politics of labour.

Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 076197217X

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Spaces of Work by Noel Castree Pdf

Spaces of Work is an accessible examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors critically assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with other more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance. Each chapter presents examples of labour practice from around the world, and across multiple sectors of work, not just Western manufacturing. In addition, the book features: · further reading section with key questions · glossary of key terms · short summaries of the main theoretical approaches · guide to further learning resouces Spaces of Work is a key book for all social scientists interested in the contemporary state of labour, and the scope for progressive change within the capitalist system. Students of human geography, sociology, international political economy, economics and cultural studies will all find this an invaluable text.

Author : Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205138

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Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism by Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten Pdf

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.

Author : Berch Berberoglu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074251661X

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Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization by Berch Berberoglu Pdf

Ten contributions from scholars and activists discuss the political economy of the labor process in the age of global capitalism, examining how the global economy effects ordinary people in the workplace. Topics include, for example, the struggle for control at the point of production, the division of labor along racial lines in U.S. agriculture, and women and resistance in the transnational labor force. Editor Berberoglu teaches sociology at the U. of Nevada, Reno. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Maarten Keune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Capital
ISBN : 9221227251

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Global Capital Strategies and Trade Union Responses by Maarten Keune Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 074531113X

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Power and Counterpower by Anonim Pdf

'A welcome initiative ... The very fact of its existence should be celebrated' Capital and ClassContents: World Socialist Economy * Way Ahead * Founding Declaration

Author : Hartmut Elsenhans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000435993

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Capitalism, Development and Empowerment of Labour by Hartmut Elsenhans Pdf

The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue – it is a class issue, and this book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a central position in the study of the social sciences. Offering nothing less than a reconciliation of Marxian, Keynesian and neoclassical economics, the work opens with a discussion of the key, interconnected economic concepts which help us to understand capitalism: price, income, profit, value, growth and crisis. Prices reflect income distribution and therefore class relations, and the chapters show that the very emergence of capitalism resulted from mass empowerment of the so-called "lower orders". Profit is always available if entrepreneurs spend on net investment and create incomes for additional labour; this, in turn, requires expanding demand, and so therefore profit depends on rising mass incomes. Conversely, underdevelopment is the result of the destitution and disempowerment of the masses. In the Global South today, it is clear that enormous riches go hand in hand with widespread misery and poverty because the market does not transform wealth into the kind of investment that might benefit all. This book argues that the new wealth triggered by productivity increases has enabled the rich to liberate themselves from the capitalist constraints of competition and waste their new wealth in the form of rents. The main threat today is, in fact, the globalisation of rent. The text makes a point for a progressive counter strategy: capitalist structures that empower labour need to be transferred to the Global South. This requires political and economic efforts towards empowering labour in the Global South. This book demonstrates the analytical power of political economy for all social scientists and will be invaluable reading for economists, political scientists and sociologists in particular.

Author : B. Berberoglu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230106390

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Globalization in the 21st Century by B. Berberoglu Pdf

This book examines the development and transformation of global capitalism in the late 20th and early 21st century. It analyzes the dynamics and contradictions of the global political economy through a comparative-historical approach based on class analysis. After providing a critical overview of neoliberal capitalist globalization over the past three decades, the book examines the emergence of new forces on the global scene and discusses the prospects of change in the global economy in a multi-polar direction in the decades ahead. The book concludes by focusing on the mass movements that are playing a central role in bringing about the transformation of global capitalism.