Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations

✍ Scribed by Maurizio Atzeni, Immanuel Ness

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Series: Work, Organization, and Employment
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital accumulation in the global age. It also helps us to understand the forms and processes of organization that these groups of workers, almost on an everyday basis, put in place to improve their working conditions and lived experiences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Rethinking Labor Unionism in Spaces of Precarious Work (Ian Thomas MacDonald)....Pages 3-22
Organizing Immigrant Workers Through ‘Communities of Coping’: An Analysis of Migrant Domestic Workers’ Journey from an Individual Labour of Love to a Collective Labour with Rights (Joyce Jiang)....Pages 23-42
Mobilizing Concealment and Spectacle Among Uruguay’s Waste-Pickers (P. O’Hare)....Pages 43-62
Local Sweatshops in the Global Economy: Accumulation Dynamics and the Manufacturing of a Reserve Army (Jerónimo Montero Bressán)....Pages 63-84
Labour Politics and South African Retail Workers: Enduring Collectivities in the Face of Precariousness (Bridget Kenny)....Pages 85-104
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
The Collective Resistance of China’s Industrial Workers (Jenny Chan)....Pages 107-125
“We Fight Against the Union!”: An Ethnography of Labor Relations in the Automotive Industry in Mexico (Paolo Marinaro)....Pages 127-140
Organizing Informal Female Workers in India: Experiences from the Construction Industry of Mumbai (Kadambari Chheda, Anuradha Patnaik)....Pages 141-156
Digital Labour and Workers’ Organisation (Jamie Woodcock)....Pages 157-173

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Human Resource Management; Globalization; International Political Economy; Labor Economics