The New book by Sarah Swidler on the rise of informal work and the new precariat in China

Sarah, Swider (2015) Building China: The Rise of Informal Work and the New Precariat, Cornell ILR Press, Ithaca, NY.

The new book on struggles of migrant and immigrant workers in Canada edited by Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith

Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith  (eds.). 2016. Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada, PM Press.

A new book on the Foxconn system by Yang, Jenny Chan and Xu Lizhi

Yang, Jenny Chan and Xu Lizhi. 2015. La Machine est ton seigneur et ton maître, Agone.

Southern Insurgency: a new book by Immanuel Ness

Immanuel Ness (2015) Southern Insurgency. The Coming of the Global Working Class, London: Pluto Press.

Role Alho PhD thesis on trade union strategies and labor migration

Role Alho (2015) Inclusion or exclusion? Trade Union Strategies and Labor Migration, PhD dissertation (University of Turku, The Faculty of Social Sciences), Institute of Migration, Turku.

New edited book on labour and transnational action in times of crisis by A.Bieler,R.Erne,D.Golden,I.Helle, K.Kjeldstadli, T.Matos and S.Stan

Andreas, Bieler,  Roland Erne, Darragh Golden, Idar Helle, Knut Kjeldstadli, Tiago Matos and Sabina Stan (eds.) (2015) Labour and transnational action in times of crisis. London: Rowman & Littlefield International

Dying for an iPhone: Italian translation of the book by Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Seiden

Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2015. Morire per un iPhone. Translated in Italian by Ferruccio Gambino and Giorgio Grappi; edited by Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto. Milan: Jaca Book.

Workers’ Guide to Health and Safety - reviewed by Kim Scipes

Todd Jailer, Miriam Lara-Meloy and Maggie Robbins. 2015. Workers’ Guide to Health and Safety,  Berkeley:  Hesperian Health Guides.

Review by Kim Scipes

Health and safety is about as boring a subject there is for most workers:  they don’t want to hear about this “crap,” they just want to get the job done.

Leverage of the Weak: the new book by Hwa-Jen Liu

Liu, Hwa-Jen. 2015. Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention series, volume 42).

Edited book by M. Dahlstedt and A. Neergaard on International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Magnus Dahlstedt, Anders Neergaard (eds.). 2015.International Migration and Ethnic Relations  Critical Perspectives, Routledge.

New book on Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance by C.U.Schierup, R.Munck, B.Likic-Brboric and A. Neergaard

Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Ronaldo Munck,Branka Likic-Brboric, and Anders Neergaard (eds.). 2015. Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance. Challenges and Opportunities for Labour, Oxford University Press.

Learning Activism - a new book by Aziz Choudry

Aziz Choudry. 2015. Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements. Toronto. University of Toronto Press.

New book by A. Hodder and L. Kretsos on Young Workers and Trade Unions

A.Hodder, L.Kretsos (eds.) 2015. Young Workers and Trade Unions. A Global View. Palgrave.

New book on global migration by M.Pilati,H. Sheikh, F.Sperotti and Ch.Tilly

Massimo Pilati, Hina Sheikh, Francesca Sperotti, Chris Tilly (eds). 2015. How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Turkish edition of Ari Sitas The Ethic of Reconciliation ediited by Ercüment Çelik

Çelik, Ercüment (2015) (ed.). Barışma Etiği. İstanbul: Beyaz Baykuş Yayınları. (Extended Turkish edition of Sitas, Ari (2008). The Ethic of Reconciliation. Durban: Madiba Press; Turkish translation by Ercüment Çelik and Ali Tuzcu).

Free Trade and Transnational Labour: the new book by Andreas Bieler, Bruno Ciccaglione, John Hilary and Ingemar Lindberg

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

The Reproductive Bargain: the new book by Heidi Gottfried

Heidi Gottfried. 2015. The Reproductive Bargain. Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism. Brill.

Special Issue: Changing work, labour and employment relations in China edited by Sarosh Kuruvilla and Eli Friedman

Sarosh Kuruvilla and Eli Friedman (eds.) (2015) Special Issue: Changing work, labour and employment relations in China, Human Relations 68(2).

A new book by Lucien van der Walt

Lucien van der Walt. 2014. Negro E Vermelho: Anarquismo, Sindicalismo Revolucionario e Pessoas de Cor na Africa Meridional nas Decadas de 1880 a 1920, Faisca, Sao Paulo.