In an interesting reply by Ronaldo Munck to my review of his book Rethinking Global Labour he misunderstands the implications of my conceptual criticisms. Rather than pointing to my empirical work in the area of Global Labour Studies since 2008, I will make two conceptual points in [...]
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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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In Rethinking Global Labour (Agenda Publishing, 2018), Ronaldo Munck has produced an important contribution to ongoing analyses of the potential role of global labour in shaping the global political economy and resisting capitalist exploitation. In this review, while appreciating Munck’s [...]
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The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion to revisit the trajectories of change in the post-Soviet space. In our article ‘Baltic Labour in the Crucible of Capitalist Exploitation: Reassessing [...]
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In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]
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Since the 1970s, increase in capital’s bargaining power vis-à-vis labour has caused immense difficulties for labour movements. Workforces have responded by developing different ways to protect themselves. As new expressions of working-class organisation and mobilisation emerge to better [...]
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It is inspiring to see such a wide variety of comments to my new book, Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India. I will try to address them in a way that synthesises the problems and challenges of the field of labour studies and working-class politics as such. I believe [...]
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At the height of apartheid in 1972 veteran sociologist Heribert Adam published a book where he predicted strikes were not possible in South Africa. Never had the predictive powers of sociology been more cruelly tested when in January 1973, six months after the book was published, [...]
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