Peter Waterman's Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist

Waterman, Peter (2014) From Coldwar Communism to the Global Emancipatory Movement: Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist, Into, Helsinki. (free e-book!).

International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century by Helen Sampson

Sampson, Helen (2013) International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century, Manchester: Mancherster University Press.

The new book on austerity by Donna Baines and Stephen McBride

Baines Donna, McBride  Stephen (eds.). 2014.  Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance. Halifax: Fernwood Books.

Spanish translation of the book by Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden

PUN Ngai, Jenny CHAN, and Mark SELDEN. 2014. Morir por un iPhone? Apple, Foxconn y la lucha de los trabajadores en China. Translated in Spanish by Florencia Olivera and edited by Andrés Ruggeri. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Ediciones Continente S.R.L.

Labour and development in East Asia: a new book by Kevin Gray

Gray, Kevin (2014) Labour and development in East Asia: social forces and passive revolution. Rethinking Globalizations . Routledge. ISBN 9780415681858.

A new book on Free Trade and Transnational Labour

Bieler, Andreas, Bruno Ciccaglione, John Hilary and Ingemar Lindberg (eds.) (2014) Free Trade and Transnational Labour. London: Routledge.

Global Knowledge Production in Social Sciences: a New Book co-edited by Ercüment Celik and with contributions by RC-44 members

Keim, Weibke, Çelik, Ercüment, Ersche, Christian, Wohrer, Veronika (eds.) 2014. Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation. Ashgate.


About the book
An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research.

Insurgency Trap - a new book by Eli Friedman

Friedman, Eli. 2014. Insurgency Trap. Labor Politics in Postsocialist China. Ithaca: ILR Press. About the book During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an “insurgency trap” of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process of capitalist industrialization is certainly not unique to China and indeed has appeared in a wide array of countries around the world. What is distinct in China, however, is the combination of postsocialist politics with rapid capitalist development.

Inside China's Automobile Factories: a new book by Lu Zhang!

Zhang, Lu. 2014. Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press.


About the book
In Inside China’s Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world’s largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of autoworkers and a deeper understanding of the roots of rising labor unrest in the auto industry. Combining original empirical data and sophisticated analysis that moves from the shop floor to national political economy and global industry dynamics, the book develops a multilayered framework for understanding how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.

TNCs from the Standpoint of Workers!

Räthzel, Nora, Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen (2014) Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers. London: Palgrave.

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Unfree Labour?

Choudry, A., and Smith, A.A. (eds.) (forthcoming, 2014) Unfree labour? Struggles of migrant and immigrant workers in Canada.  Halifax: Fernwood.