Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations

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.

Sheds light on a topic that is often overlooked in the literature Goes beyond traditional trade union-based approaches to precarious work and workers Investigates precarious work in relatively unexplored countries and sectors

Autorentext

Maurizio Atzeni is a researcher at the Centre for Labour Relations/Argentinian National Research Council based in Buenos Aires, having previously held positions at Loughborough and De Montfort Universities in the UK. He has published extensively on labour-related issues and is currently on the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society and of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Social Change. His research focuses on working class mobilization, global south workers, migration, resistance and social movements. He is general editor with Peter Bellwood of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, and is also editor of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

Inhalt
Rethinking Labor Unionism in Spaces of Precarious Work.- 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.- Mobilizing Concealment and Spectacle Among Uruguay's Waste-Pickers.- Local Sweatshops in the Global Economy: Accumulation Dynamics and the Manufacturing of a Reserve Army.- Labour Politics and South African Retail Workers: Enduring Collectivities in the Face of Precariousness.- The Collective Resistance of China's Industrial Workers.- We Fight Against the Union!: An Ethnography of Labor Relations in the Automotive Industry in Mexico.- Organizing Informal Female Workers in India: Experiences from the Construction Industry of Mumbai.- Digital Labour and Workers' Organisation