To rethink development is an essential task if the term is to have any meaning for us at all. As an area of study and as a policy intervention in the global South, it has taken on an absolutist, yet at the same time a somewhat vacuous, character. While the modalities and theories of [...]
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Once a book is written it no longer ‘belongs’ to the author so I will not respond defensively to the thoughtful readers in this forum. Rather, I will join them in seeking to take the debate on social movements forward, conscious that often the students of social movement are also activists. [...]
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I would like to thank Andreas Bieler for his interesting and engaged review of my recent book Rethinking Global Labour, optimistically titled After Neoliberalism and Adam David Morton for hosting it on his excellent cutting-edge site. After explaining what the book is about Bieler makes two [...]
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The main problem with much of the mainstream literature on labour and globalization is that it tends to conceive of labour as a passive victim of the new capitalist trends, the malleable material from which globalization will construct its new world order. Capital is seen as an active, [...]
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Rising developments within labour challenge the conventional progressive wisdom that neoliberal globalisation has been an unprecedented disaster for workers, trade unions, and the labor movement. As argued in my new contribution to the Great Transition Initiative, the obstacles to labour [...]
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