The Migration-Development Regime (Rina Agarwala)

The Migration-Development Regime

How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

Rina Agarwala

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-migration-development-regime-9780197586402?q=Agarwala&lang=en&cc=us 

Modern South Asia

• Offers a novel framework with which to analyze international migration, namely the "Migration Development Regime" or MDR
• Provides a sociological analysis that compares sending states' use of both poor and elite emigrants
• Compiles and draws on extremely unique unpublished data, including over 200 interviews, the first data base of over 600 Indian-American transnational organizations, and archives of Indian government documents from 1920-present

We the Elites (Robert Ovetz)

We the Elites

Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

by Robert Ovetz

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344720/we-the-elites/

A new, radical reading of the US constitution.

Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says.

This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction.

Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.

Proletarian China (edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace 2022)

Franceschini, Ivan and Christian Sorace, eds. 2022. Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour. New York: Verso Books. [download].

*Contributors: Corey Byrnes, Craig A. Smith, Xu Guoqi, Zhou Ruixue, Lin Chun, Elizabeth J. Perry, Tony Saich, Wang Kan, Gail Hershatter, Apo Leong, S.A. Smith, Alexander F. Day, Yige Dong, Seung-Joon Lee, Lu Yan, Joshua Howard, Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, Brian DeMare, Emily Honig, Po-chien Chen, Yi-hung Liu, Jake Werner, Malcolm Thompson, Robert Cliver, Mark W. Frazier, John Williams, Christian Sorace, Zhu Ruiyi, Ivan Franceschini, Chen Feng, Ben Kindler, Jane Hayward, Tim Wright, Koji Hirata, Jacob Eyferth, Aminda Smith, Fabio Lanza, Ralph Litzinger, J onathan Unger, Covell F. Meyskens, Maggie Clinton, Patricia M. Thornton, Ray Yep, Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi, Joel Andreas, Matt Galway, Michel Bonnin, A.C. Baecker, Mary Ann O’Donnell, Tiantian Zheng, Jeanne L. Wilson, Ming-sho Ho, Yueran Zhang, Anita Chan, Sarah Biddulph, Jude Howell, William Hurst, Dorothy J. Solinger, Ching Kwan Lee, Chloé Froissart, Mary Gallagher, Eric Florence, Junxi Qian, Chris King-chi Chan, Elaine Sio-Ieng Hui, Jenny Chan, Eli Friedman, Aaron Halegua, Wanning Sun, Marc Blecher, Huang Yu, Manfred Elfstrom, Darren Byler, Carlos Rojas, Chen Qiufan.

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/ 

Andreas Bieler and Jörg Nowak (2022) Labour Conflicts in the Global South

Bieler, Andreas and Jörg Nowak, eds. 2022. Labour Conflicts in the Global South. London: Routledge.

1st Edition

Labour Conflicts in the Global South

Edited By 

Andreas Bieler

, 

Jörg Nowak

Copyright Year 2022

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ISBN 9781032211275

Published April 28, 2022 by Routledge

166 Pages

Book Description

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.

This volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoing fragmentation of actors, models and strategies? In addressing this question, consideration is given to issues of class as well as gender and race.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Precarious Asia (Arne Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison and Kwang-Yeong Shin 2022)

Kalleberg, Arne L., Kevin Hewison and Kwang-Yeong Shin. 2022. Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil

Martin, Scott B., João Paulo Cândia Veiga and Katiuscia Moreno Galhera. 2021. Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil: Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America. Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Nora Räthzel, Dimitris Stevis and David Uzzell, eds (2021) The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies

Räthzel, Nora, Dimitris Stevis and David Uzzell, eds. 2021. The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.

Nora Räthzel is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Umeå (Sweden). Her main research areas are environmental labour studies, transnational corporations and gender and ethnic relations in the everyday. Publications include:  Marxist-Feminists Theories and Struggles Today with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari (eds.); Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers with Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen; Trade Unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment (with David Uzzell, eds.).

Dimitris Stevis is Professor of Politics at Colorado State University (USA). His research focuses on global labour and environmental politics, with particular attention to labour environmentalism and social and ecological justice. He is a founder of the Center for Environmental Justice and recently published (with Dunja Krause and Edouard Morena) Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World (Pluto Press 2020).

David Uzzell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor, Grupo de Investigación Persoa-Ambiente, University of A Coruna, Spain. His research interests include critical psychological approaches to changing consumption and production practices. He edited (with Nora Räthzel) Trade Unions in the Green Economy: Working for the Environment (Routledge, 2013).