The Labour Movement In The Global South

Author : S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136904257

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Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UIUC:30112104529927

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Labour in the Global South by International Labour Office Pdf

Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.? -Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Author : S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136904264

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The Labour Movement in the Global South by S. Janaka Biyanwila Pdf

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608466658

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Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization by Kim Scipes Pdf

This anthology explores the international labor movements building worker solidarity across the Global South. Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged all over the world—from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan. Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization is a call for international solidarity to resist the assaults on labor’s power. This collection of essays by international labor activists and academics examines models of worker solidarity, different forms of labor organizations, and those models’ and organizations’ relationships to social movements and civil society.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Jörg Nowak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000581157

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Labour Conflicts in the Global South by Andreas Bieler,Jörg Nowak Pdf

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS. This volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization 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. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoing fragmentation of actors, models and strategies? In addressing this question, consideration is given to issues of class as well as gender and race. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Author : Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Robert O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 1108703542

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Labour Internationalism in the Global South by Robert O'Brien Pdf

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677124

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Can the Working Class Change the World? by Michael D. Yates Pdf

One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : 0745343597

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Organizing Insurgency by Immanuel Ness Pdf

Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism. Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and South Africa, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet. Immanuel Ness shows that workers are eager to mobilise to improve their conditions, and can achieve lasting gains if they have sustenance and support from political organisations. From the Dickensian industrial zones of Delhi to the agrarian oligarchy on the island of Mindanao, a common element remains – when workers organise they move closer to the realisation of socialism, solidarity and equality.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Bruno Ciccaglione,John Hilary,Ingemar Lindberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317678656

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Free Trade and Transnational Labour by Andreas Bieler,Bruno Ciccaglione,John Hilary,Ingemar Lindberg Pdf

Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade agreements, building on this expanded trade agenda. Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Craig Phelan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Endüstriyel ilişkiler
ISBN : 3039114107

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Trade Unionism Since 1945 by Craig Phelan Pdf

Overview This book offers the detailed historical background required for a holistic appreciation of current problems faced and the possibilities for revitalisation. In two volumes it provides introductory overviews of trade union development since the end of World War II in 26 countries from every corner of the globe. Each chapter explains the main contours of trade union growth and development in one country from the pivotal year 1945 to the present. Each chapter assesses the often dynamic expansion of trade unionism in the 1950s and 1960s; the role of trade unionism in the movements for national liberation in the Global South and the erection of social welfare systems in the developed North; the economic shocks that resulted in membership decline and loss of political influence from the late 1970s onward; the economic restructuring and growing labour market diversity of the 1980s and 1990s that undercut the traditional bases of trade union membership; and the historical roots of the contemporary political and economic context in which revitalisation efforts are taking place.

Author : Verena Schmidt
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015076161028

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Trade Union Responses to Globalization by Verena Schmidt Pdf

Bringing together papers from national and international experts from the Global Union Research Network (GURN), this book provides an overview of how trade unions around the world are responding to globalisation.Globalisation has proved a complex and multi-faceted process for workers, as are the strategies they must develop to face its challenges. The case studies in this volume demonstrate successful strategies undertaken by trade unions in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, Colombia, India, Poland, the United Kingdom, Turkey as well as Southern and Eastern Africa. In the process, the contributors highlight issues crucial to trade unions in this period of fast-paced change, such as the struggle for transparent governance for a fairer globalisation, the implementation of labour standards, employment creation, social protection, poverty alleviation including meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals and gender equality and more.It shows how trade unions are a key part in influencing the rules of globalisation to achieve a fairer globalisation, while also playing a role in implementing and enforcing these rules

Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039115766

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Global Labour History by Jan Lucassen Pdf

Part I: Historiography Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope 39 Jan Lucassen African Labor History 91 Frederick Cooper Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa 117 Zachary Lockman Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia 147 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance 161 Akira Suzuki Fin-de-Si6cle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition 195 Bryan D. Palmer Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 227 Dick Geary The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions 289 John D. French What's in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania 335 Lucy Taksa Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China 373 Arif Dirlik The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia 397 Andrei Sokolov Part 2: Case Studies in Comparative Labour History Worldwide Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective 455 Prasannan Parthasarathi Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections 479 Ratna Saptari Brickmakers in Western Europe (17oo00-19oo) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons 513 Jan Lucassen Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts 573 Ian Phimister "Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth": Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 591 Lex Heerma van Voss Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns 623 Shelton Stromquist.

Author : Adolf Fox Sturmthal,James G. Scoville
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : UCAL:B4393572

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The International Labor Movement in Transition by Adolf Fox Sturmthal,James G. Scoville Pdf

Comparison of labour movements and labour relations systems in Africa, Asia, Western Europe and Latin America - analyses the conditions under which a reasonable permanent collective bargaining system can be established, and covers trade union strategies, labour market conditions, labour relations and the level of industrialization, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : S. Motta,A. Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230302044

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Social Movements in the Global South by S. Motta,A. Gunvald Nilsen Pdf

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.