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Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work

Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2016
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78195-494-2 (ISBN)

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'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material 'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speciﬁc institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the ﬁeld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the challenges within this ﬁeld.'
- British Journal of Industrial Relations

With the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time.

The first part of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour, homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.

Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this book will appeal to students, academics and those generally interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.

Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J. Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K. Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. Yun

Edited by the late Rob Lambert, formerly The University of Western Australia and Andrew Herod, Regents’ Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, US

Contents:

1. Neoliberalism, Precarious Work and Remaking the Geography of Global Capitalism
Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert

PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK
Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert

2. The Growth and Organization of a Precariat: Working in the Clothing Industry in Johannesburg’s Inner City
Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster

3. Bounded Mobilizations: Informal Unionism and Secondary Shaming Amongst Immigrant Temp Workers in Chicago
Sébastien Chauvin

4. Homebased Work and New Ways of Organizing in the Era of Globalization
Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate

5. Constructing Violence and Resistance: The Political Economy of the Construction Industry and Labour Subcontracting System in Post-Socialist China
Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin

6. Nature and Insecurity in South Africa
Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert

7. At the Cutting Edge: Precarious Work in Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Industry
Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto

PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK
Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert

8. Organizing Across a Fragmented Labour Force: Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work in Korean Auto Companies
Aelim Yun

9. Closures and Openings: The Politics of Place and Space in Resisting Corporate Restructuring
Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert

10. Sweatshop Citizenship, Precariousness and Organizing Building Cleaners
Luis L.M. Aguiar

11. Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards
Mark Thomas

Conclusion: Towards a Movement of the Dispossessed?
Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2016
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-78195-494-1 / 1781954941
ISBN-13	978-1-78195-494-2 / 9781781954942
Zustand	Neuware