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Shifting the theoretical terrain of workers’ power

Tom Barnes | May 28, 2019

Review of: Jörg Nowak, Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression (Palgrave, 2019).

Jörg Nowak’s book represents an outstanding contribution to international labour studies, particularly for those interested in the [...]

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Has contemporary industrialisation taken India down the ‘low road’?

Tom Barnes | November 23, 2018

Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]

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Bharat Bandh: Millions face-down Modi’s labour agenda

Tom Barnes | October 20, 2016

A massive, nationwide strike caused major disruption to India’s economy on 2 September, popularised as Bharat Bandh (literally ‘India closed’ in Hindi/Sanskrit). Some unions have claimed this was the largest general strike in history, with up to 150 million workers involved and costs to [...]

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Call for Papers: From Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism?

Tom Barnes | May 26, 2016

From Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism?

A Workshop for Early-Career and Postgraduate Researchers

RMIT, Melbourne, Fri 2nd December, 2016

Hosted by The Australian Sociological Association’s [...]

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Detroit: Notes from a Neoliberal Laboratory

Tom Barnes | December 21, 2015

Detroit has been famous for a long time for all the wrong reasons. Once the fourth great city of American Empire, the city has been wrecked by decades of deindustrialisation, depopulation and racial segregation. By 2013, about 50 percent of the population lived in poverty—an astonishing rise [...]

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Labour contractors, unfree labour and global capitalism

Tom Barnes | June 24, 2015

‘To think one word alerted the world. Qatar.’ So wrote The Australian’s Patrick Smith recently, in response to the global crisis in world football. At the heart of the controversy surrounding FIFA’s decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar is its appalling record of worker safety and [...]

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Theorising Informal Labour in the New India

Tom Barnes | February 16, 2015

Excitement about India’s role as a rising power was again highlighted by Barack Obama’s state visit to New Delhi in January. From an Australian angle, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was lauded as a high-profile guest during the Brisbane G20 summit in November.

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From Mumbai to Melbourne (via Detroit): what future for ‘post-industrial’ society?

Tom Barnes | September 29, 2014

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). With colleagues in ACU’s new Institute for Religion, Politics and Society, I am starting a project on ‘deindustrialisation’ and the decline of the automotive industry in Australia and the United [...]

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    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
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