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)

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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).

Andreas Bieler 2021 Fighting for Water (Zed Books)

Bieler, Andreas. 2021. Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe. London: Zed Books.

Chapter 1 – Resisting water privatisation: An introduction.
Chapter 2 – Capitalism's relentless thirst for accumulation
Chapter 3 – Mobilising from below: the victory in the Italian water referendum
Chapter 4 – Water is a Human Right: The first European Citizens' Initiative over public water
Chapter 5 – Contesting the Troika: resistance in Greece against imposed water privatisation
Chapter 6 – 'We will strike, we will fight, water is a human right': The Irish people rise up
Chapter 7 – Transforming capitalism towards the commons?

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.