Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
Autor: Editors: Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore, Ursula Apitzsch
Publisher: E-Elgar EE
Páginas: 724
Published in October 2023
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This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.
Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the relations between different forms of work, exploitation, class configuration and worker resistance. With insights from global experts across the social sciences, it examines changes in technology, geographies of production, and the dynamics of the global capitalist political economy to map modern configurations of work. Using ongoing empirical qualitative research, contributors explore key issues such as capital accumulation, migration, digital work, trade unionism and reproductive labour. There is a particular focus on perspectives from the Global South, with in-depth analyses of class and work in countries and regional economic blocs used to explore the dynamics between the local and the global.
Providing an authoritative overview of traditional and current debates, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and researchers of political economy, industrial relations and the sociology of work, critical management studies, social movement studies, and development.
Contents:
Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work
Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Ursula Apitzsch, Phoebe Moore
PART I THEORIES AND CONCEPTS
SECTION A. CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND FORMS OF EXPLOITATION
1 Class, labour and the global working class
Ronaldo Munck
2 Imperialism and labour under neo-liberal globalization
Prabhat Patnaik and Utsa Patnaik
3 Reserve army, ‘surplus’ population, ‘classes of labour’
Henry Bernstein
4 Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work
Alessandra Mezzadri
5 Unfree labour in the 21st century?
Siobhan McGrath
6 World-system, production, and labour
Manuela Boatcă
7 The proletariat and the revolution
Marcel van der Linden
SECTION B. SHIFTING REGIMES OF EXPLOITATION: FROM THE WORKPLACE TO THE TERRITORY TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
8 Analysing the labour process and the global political economy of work
Kendra Briken
9 Exploitation and global value chains
Benjamin Selwyn, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Elena Baglioni,
Satoshi Miyamura and Jonathan Pattenden
10 Rural-urban circuits of labour in the Global South: reflections on accumulation and social reproduction
Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros
SECTION C. CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
11 Commoning labour power
Dario Azzellini
12 Social and solidarity economy and self-management
Marcelo Vieta and Ana Inés Heras
13 Operaismo: in search of the political economy of subjectivity
Gigi Roggero
14 The global gig economy: towards a planetary labour market?
Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar
15 Workers’organisation, class and collective action in precarious times
Maurizio Atzeni
16 Workers and labour movements in the fight against climate change
Linda Clarke and Melahat Sahin-Dikmen
17 Sustainable work: national perspectives and the valorisation of work in Europe
Dario Azzellini, Sebastian Brandl and Ingo Matuschek
SECTION D. INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
18 Understanding the global political economy of work: insights from labor geography
Andrew Herod
19 COVID-19, divisions of labor, and workers’ struggles in the United States: insights from anthropology
Sharryn Kasmir
20 Global labour history – its promises and hazards
Stefano Bellucci
21 How the field of industrial relations remains relevant for understanding the global political economy of work
Heather Connolly
PART II INTERSECTIONS
SECTION A. INTERSECTIONS OF WORK AND MOBILITY
22 Capture, coexistence and valorization of workers’ mobility across borders
Claudia Bernardi
23 Migrations and global capitalist agriculture: peripheral workers’ mobility and exploitation as fundamental pillars of the world-ecology
Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau
24 Migrant work exploitation and resistance in the Italian countryside: precarious lives between violence and agency
Monica Massari
25 Extractive humanitarianism: unpaid labour and participatory detention in refugees governmentality
Martina Tazzioli
SECTION B. INTERSECTIONS OF DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE WORK
26 Problems in protections for working data subjects: becoming strangers to ourselves
Phoebe V Moore
27 Intensification of labour value extraction under artificial intelligence
Baruch Gottlieb
28 Class composition in the digitalised gig economy
Jamie Woodcock
29 Resistance and struggle in the gig economy
Vincenzo Maccarrone, Lorenzo Cini and Arianna Tassinari
30 De-skilling and diminishing workers’ autonomy in the digital workplace
Saori Shibata
31 Economics of the gig economy and legal arbitrage around employment law
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
SECTION C. INTERSECTIONS OF WORK AND LIFE
32 Surrogacy as commodified transnational care work
Ursula Apitzsch
33 Global political economy of care and gender – crisis, extractivism and contestation
Christa Wichterich
34 Aging societies and migrant labour force in elderly care: the German case
Maria Kontos and Minna K. Ruokonen-Engler
35 Questioning social reproduction theory: North African working-class migrants in France and their families
Catherine Delcroix
36 Towards a global political economy of sex/work: evidence of Argentina and Costa Rica
Kate Hardy and Megan Rivers-Moore
SECTION D. INTERSECTIONS OF STRUGGLES
37 Trade unions (ism), social movements and the community: connections and politics
Miguel Martínez Lucio
38 Global unions and transnational labor movement
Julia Soul and Cecilia Anigstein
39 Evolving forms of organizing workers in the informal economy
Jeemol Unni
40 The power and politics of precarious resistance
Marcel Paret
41 Spatial dimensions of strikes
Jörg Nowak
42 Feminist strike, social reproduction, and debt
Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
43 The political economy of extractivism and social struggles in Latin America
Tomás Palmisano and Juan Wahren
SECTION E. INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN WORK IN THE GLOBAL NORTH AND THE SOUTH: EXPLORING THE LINKS IN KEY PRODUCTIVE SECTORS
44 Exhaust and switch: labour and the garment industry in global production networks
Nikolaus Hammer
45 Imperialism and labour: palm industry in the territories of Black communities in the border areas of Colombia and Ecuador (Tumaco-San Lorenzo)
Edna Yiced Martínez
46 Skilled migration, productive forces and the development question in the era of generalized monopolies
Raúl Delgado Wise and Mateo Crossa Niell
47 Major trends in work at sea: outline of a political economy of maritime labour
Jörn Boewe
48 Counter-logistics in Po Valley region
Niccolò Cuppini
PART III PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORKING CLASS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH: LOCAL REALITIES AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS
SECTION A. ASIA
49 The political economy of labor informality in India: trends, theories, and politics
Supriya RoyChowdhury
50 Informalization of labor in contemporary China
Jenny Chan
SECTION B. AFRICA
51 Precariousness and push-back: capital circuits, labour markets and working-class politics in South Africa
Bridget Kenny
52 Work and exploitation in Ethiopia and beyond
Andreas Admasie
SECTION C. SOUTH AMERICA
53 Working class conditions and resistances in context of austerity in ArgentinaLucila D’Urso and Clara Marticorena
54 Chile – from Pinochet’s neoliberal counter-revolution to the 2019–20 anti-neoliberal revolt
Miguel Urrutia and Fernando Durán-Palma
55 Brazil: inequalities, labour exploitation and new informalization processes
Ludmila Costhek Abílio
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