Schierup, Likic-Brboric, Wise and Toksöz (eds., 2019) Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance

Schierup, Branka Likic-Brboric, Raúl Delgado Wise and Gülay Toksöz, eds.  2019. Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance. London: Routledge. 

Description

How do the United Nations, international organizations, governments, corporate actors and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regional and global trade unions perceive the root causes of migration, global inequality and options for sustainable development? This is one of the most pertinent political questions of the 21st century.

This comprehensive collection examines the development of an emerging global governance on migration with the focus on spaces, roles, strategies and alliance-making of a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rights and the protection of migrants and their families. It reveals the need to strengthen networking and convergence among movements that adopt different entry points to the same struggle, from fighting ‘managed’ migration to contesting corporate control of food and land. The authors examine the opportunities and challenges faced by civil society in its endeavour to promote a rights-based approach within international and intergovernmental fora engaged in setting up a global compact for the management of migration, such as the Global Forum for Migration and Development, and in other global policy spaces.

URL: https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Civil-Society-and-Global-Governance-1st-Edition/Schierup-Likic-Brboric-Wise-Toksoz/p/book/9780367147266

Morena, Krause and Stevis (eds, 2020) Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World

Morena, Edouard, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis, eds. 2020. Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World. London: Pluto Press.

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of 'sustainability' emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. 'Just Transition' is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. But what does it really mean?

Just Transition emerged as a framework developed within the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' and frontline communities' jobs and livelihoods as economies shift to sustainable production. Just Transitions draws on a range of perspectives from the global North and South to interrogate the overlaps, synergies and tensions between various understandings of the Just Transition approach. As the concept is entering the mainstream, has it lost its radical edge, and if so, can it be recovered?

Written by academics and activists from around the globe, this unique edited collection is the first book entirely devoted to Just Transition.

URL: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339924/just-transitions/

Lee, Ng and Landbury (eds, 2020) Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region

Lee, Byoung-Hoon, Ng Sek-hong and Russell D. Lansbury, eds. 2020. Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region. London: Routledge.

Description

Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation

and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship

between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour

movements and worker representation. However, this process is not

universal, including in some countries of Asia, where trade unions are

closely aligned with the interests of the dominant political party and the

state. This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and

worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country,

full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker

representation have arisen. Key questions then considered include the challenges

facing trade unions and worker representation in each country, the

extent to which these are a result of global or local developments and the

actions being taken by trade unions and worker representative bodies to

cope with the challenges.

https://www.routledge.com/Trade-Unions-and-Labour-Movements-in-the-Asia-Pacific-Region-1st-Edition/Lee-Sek-Hong-Lansbury/p/book/9780367190491

Schmalz and Sommer (eds 2019) Confronting Crisis and Precariousness

Schmalz, Stefan and Brandon Sommer, eds. 2019. Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.

Anja Höfner and Vivian Frick, eds. (2019) Was Bits & Bäume verbindet: Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten

Anja Höfner and Vivian Frick, eds, 2019

Was Bits & Bäume verbindet: Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten

Making Digitization Sustainable

Technical University’s Center for Technology and Society

Munich: Oekom verlag

NEU:

Anja Höfner, Vivian Frick (Hrsg.)

Was Bits und Bäume verbindet

Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten

Die Konferenz »Bits & Bäume« (2018 in Berlin) bot das bis dato größte Debattenforum für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit. Über 50 Autor*innen aus Tech-Szene, Nachhaltigkeitsbewegung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zeigen in diesem Buch zur Konferenz, wie die Digitalisierung den sozial-ökologischen Wandel voranbringen kann.

Die Beiträge beleuchten die Auswirkungen unseres Digitalkonsums im Globalen Süden, den nachhaltigen Umgang mit Daten oder die Risiken und Potenziale eines digitalisierten Wirtschaftssystems. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei stets die drängende Frage: Welche Digitalisierung wollen wir?

Die verschiedenen Antworten auf diese Frage machen deutlich: Eine zukunftsfähige Digitalisierung muss sich weniger an Interessen einzelner Wirtschaftsakteure, sondern am Gemeinwohl orientieren. Ausgewählte Beiträge der »Bits & Bäume« zahlreiche Infografiken und Porträts geben Denk- und Handlungsanstöße, wie die Digitalisierung die Welt besser machen kann.

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Elizabeth Humphrys (2019) How Labour Built Neoliberalism (Brill: Leiden)

Elizabeth Humphrys. 2019. How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project. Brill: Leiden.

How Labour Built Neoliberalism

Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project

Series:

• Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 126

Author: Elizabeth Humphrys

Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? And, more controversially, were the trade unions only victims of neoliberal change, or did they playSee More

Publication Date: 

8 October 2018

ISBN: 

978-90-04-38346-3

DOI: 

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383463

Marissa Brookes (2019) The New Politics of Transnational Labor (Cornell ILR Press)

Marissa Brookes. 2019. The New Politics of Transnational Labor: Why Some Alliances Succeed. Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press.

Over the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have not. In The New Politics of Transnational Labor, Marissa Brookes explains why this dichotomy has occurred. Using the coordination and context-appropriate (CCAP) theory, she assesses this divergence, arguing that the success of transnational alliances hinges not only on effective coordination across borders and within workers' local organizations but also on their ability to exploit vulnerabilities in global value chains, invoke national and international institutions, and mobilize networks of stakeholders in ways that threaten employers' core, material interests.

Brookes uses six comparative case studies spanning four industries, five countries, and fifteen years. From dockside labor disputes in Britain and Australia to service sector campaigns in the supermarket and private security industries to campaigns aimed at luxury hotels in Southeast Asia, Brookes creates her new theoretical framework and speaks to debates in international and comparative political economy on the politics of economic globalization, the viability of private governance, and the impact of organized labor on economic inequality. From this assessment, Brookes provides a vital update to the international relations literature on non-state actors and transnational activism and shows how we can understand the unique capacities labor has as a transnational actor.