Genevieve LeBaron (ed.) Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy (OUP)

LeBaron, Genevieve, ed. 2019. Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological Challenges and Advances. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited by Genevieve LeBaron, Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield

Genevieve LeBaron is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. She is also Co-Chair of the Yale University Modern Slavery Working Group. She has been awarded the British Academy 'Rising Star Engagement Award' for her work on forced labour by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences and was included in the global 'Top 100 Human Trafficking and Slavery Influence Leaders List'. Her research focuses on the business dynamics of forced labour in global supply chains, as well as the effectiveness of private governance systems to combat it.

Contributors:

Jean Allain, Monash University
Robert Caruana, Nottingham University Business School
Jenny Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Andrew Crane, University of Bath
Neil Howard, University of Antwerp
Genevieve LeBaron, University of Sheffield
Sam Okyere, University of Nottingham
Nicola Phillips, Kings College London
Jessica Pliley, Texas State University
Joel Quirk, University of Witwatersrand
Andreas Rühmkorf, University of Sheffield

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/researching-forced-labour-in-the-global-economy-9780197266472?cc=hk&lang=en&# 

Robert O'Brien, Labour Internationalism in the Global South (Cambridge U Press)

O’Brien, Robert. 2019. Labour Internationalism in the Global South: The SIGTUR Initiative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Robert O'Brien, McMaster University, Ontario

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/obrien-robert

New book: Labour Internationalism in the Global South

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/labour-internationalism-in-the-global-south/933DB02DDA78390F3D3468021134C369

Ercüment Çelik, Güney Sosyolojisi ve Türkiye'de Sosyoloji (Southern Sociology and Sociology in Turkey)

Please find the book information below:

Çelik, Ercüment. 2018. Güney Sosyolojisi ve Türkiye'de Sosyoloji. İstanbul: Nota bene. (Southern Sociology and Sociology in Turkey)

The rich contributions to the development of a Southern Sociology perspective have enabled sociologists in various countries to rethink and reassess the development of sociology discipline in their countries. This book firstly, aims to identify the main theses of the scholars contributed to the Southern Sociology perspective such as Connell, Burawoy, Comaroff and Comaroff, Bhambra, Rosa, Maia etc. and then applies these to the historical development of Turkish sociology. The author selectively focuses on two periods, the 1930s-1950s and the 1970s-1980s, which would, he believes, be a valuable contribution from Turkey to the ongoing development of Southern Sociology perspective. The former period was remarked by the re-establishment of sociology at the Turkish universities with the contribution of German migrant scholars, who had to escape from the nationalist-socialist regime in Germany at those years. This period exemplifies a continuity of the Eurocentric development of sociology that extends and partly challenges the periodization of the development of sociology by Connell. The latter period was remarked by the contribution of Turkish scholars and intelligentsia to the international debates on the “Asian Type of Mode of Production” and “Petty Commodity Production”, which in turn exemplifies a Southern production of knowledge and engages with Burawoy’s arguments on Southern Sociology. The book secondly, problematizes the hegemonic construction and structure of the discipline at Turkish universities and focuses on the teaching of ‘Contemporary Sociological Theory’ Courses. The author presents empirical findings of the content analysis of course syllabi and reading lists at 16 sociology departments and qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 14 sociologists teaching this course. Keywords: Asian Mode of Production, Petty Commodity Production, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Southern Sociology and Turkish Sociology