Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates (2021) Global Youth Unemployment History

Fergusson, Ross and Nicola Yeates. 2021. Global Youth Unemployment History, Governance and Policy. Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing.

 

Global Youth Unemployment

History, Governance and Policy

Ross Fergusson, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Nicola Yeates, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University, UK

Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78990 041 5 Extent: 296 pp

This timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present substantial new evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people’s social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.

Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19, Vols 1 & 2 (ed Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane and Jason A. Smith)

Dolgon, Corey W. 2020. “President Welcome.” Pp. vii-x in Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19, Volume 1: US Perspectives, edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane and Jason A. Smith. Bristol: Bristol University Press & Policy Press.

 

Dolgon, Corey W. 2020. “President Welcome.” Pp. vii-xi in Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19, Volume 2: Global Perspectives, edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane and Jason A. Smith. Bristol: Bristol University Press & Policy Press.

Robert Ovetz, ed. (2021) Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

Ovetz, Robert, ed. 2021. Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives. London: Pluto Press.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves.

By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organisational forms and objectives. These workers' inquiries, from call centre workers to platform, trucking, cleaning, logistics, mining, auto factories, teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energising unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organisations.

In one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers' movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do.

Kim Scipes (2021) Building Global Labor Solidarity

 

Scipes, Kim. 2021. Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Dundon, Tony, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Emma Hughes, Debra Howcroft, Arjan Keizer and Roger Walden (2020)

Dundon, Tony, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Emma Hughes, Debra Howcroft, Arjan Keizer and Roger Walden. 2020. Power, Politics and Influence at Work. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Simon Black (2020) Social Reproduction and the City

 

Black, Simon. 2020. Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Social Reproduction and the City

Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York

Simon Black

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The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services "on the cheap," relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers' need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers' need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the "crisis of care," social reproduction, and the neoliberal city.

At a theoretical level, Simon Black's history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR

SIMON BLACK is an assistant professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University.

Daya Kishan Thussu and Kaarle Nordenstreng, eds. (2021) BRICS Media

Thussu, Daya Kishan and Kaarle Nordenstreng, eds. 2021. BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order? London: Routledge.

Book Description

Bringing together distinguished scholars from BRICS nations and those with a deep interest in and knowledge of these emerging powers, this collection makes a significant intervention in the ongoing debates about comparative communication research and thus contribute to the further internationalization of media and communication studies.

The unprecedented expansion of online media in the world’s major non-Western nations, exemplified by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is transforming global communication. Despite their differences and divergences on key policy issues, what unites these five nations, representing more than 20 per cent of the global GDP, is the scale and scope of change in their communication environment, triggered by a multilingual, mobile Internet. The resulting networked and digitized communication ecology has reoriented international media and communication flows. Evaluating the implications of globalization of BRICS media on the reshaping of international communication, the book frames this within the contexts of theory-building on media and communication systems, soft power discourses and communication practices, including in cyberspace. Adopting a critical approach in analysing BRICS communication strategies and their effectiveness, the book assesses the role of the BRICS nations in reframing a global communication order for a ‘post-American world’.

This critical volume of essays is ideal for students, teachers and researchers in journalism, media, politics, sociology, international relations, area studies and cultural studies programmes.