Volume
four, issue two of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and
refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is
now out.
This
issue of Interface includes 529 pages and 28 pieces in English and Spanish, by
authors writing from / about Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada,
Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Thailand, Tunisia, the UK and the US among other countries.
Articles in this issue include:
Editorial
• Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys, Laurence
Cox, Ana Margarida Esteves,
For
the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work,
workers and precarity
For
the global emancipation of labour
• Wolfgang Schaumberg,
Development
in China and Germany: another world is possible? (action note)
• Dae-Oup Chang,
The
neoliberal rise of East Asia and social movements of labour: four moments and a
challenge
• Joe Sutcliffe,
Labour
movements in the global South: a prominent role in struggles against
neo-liberal globalisation? (action note)
• Stefania Barca,
On
working-class environmentalism: a historical and transnational overview
• Nora Räthzel and Peter Uzzell,
Mending
the breach between labour and nature: environmental engagements of trade unions
and the North-South divide
• Melanie Kryst,
Coalitions
of labor unions and NGOs: the room for maneuver of the German Clean Clothes
Campaign
• Daniel Faniel,
Trade
unions and the unemployed: towards a dialectical approach
• Martine D’Amours, Guy Bellemare and
Louise Briand,
Grasping
new forms of unionism: the case of childcare services in Quebec
• Annalisa Murgia and Giulia Selmi,
“Inspire
and conspire”: Italian precarious workers between self-organization and
self-advocacy
• Alberto Arribas Lozano,
Sobre
la precariedad y sus fugas. La experiencia de las Oficinas de Derechos Sociales
• Franco Barchiesi,
Liberation
of, through, or from work? Postcolonial Africa and the problem with “job
creation” in the global crisis
• Elise Thorburn,
A
common assembly: multitude, assemblies, and a new politics of the common
• Godfrey Moase,
A
new species of shark: towards direct unionism (action note)
• Nicolás Somma,
The
Chilean student movement of 2011 – 2012: challenging the marketization of
education (event analysis)
• Tristan Partridge,
Organizing
process, organizing life: collective responses to precarity in Ecuador (action
note)
• Peter Waterman,
An
emancipatory global labour studies is necessary! On rethinking the global
labour movement in the hour of furnaces
General
articles:
• Jackie Smith,
Connecting
social movements and political moments: bringing movement building tools from
global justice to Occupy Wall Street activism
• Kenneth Good,
Democratisation
from Poland to Portugal, 1970s - 1990s and in Tunisia and Egypt since 2010
• Mayssoun Sukarieh,
From
terrorists to revolutionaries: the emergence of “youth” in the Arab world and
the discourse of globalization
• Corey Wrenn,
The
abolitionist approach: critical comparisons and challenges within the animal
rights movement
• Ángel Calle Collado, Marta Soler
Montiel, Isabel Vara Sánchez, David Gallar Hernández,
La
desafección al sistema agroalimentario: ciudadanía y redes sociales
• Tomás Mac Sheoin,
Power
imbalances and claiming credit in coalition campaigns: Greenpeace and Bhopal
