Global Rupture

Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51916-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 349 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

Reihe: Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work

Global Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed rich case studies from the world outside of North America, Europe, and Australasia. Each contribution converges on the enduring and expanding significance of informal and precarious work within the Global South—the most significant factor in preventing a worldwide decent work agenda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hammer, Anita

Ness, Immanuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness

PART 1: South-West Asia

1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey

Safak Tartanoglu Bennett

2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism

Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer

PART 2: Africa

3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s

Bridget Kenny

4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors

Ilona Steiler

PART 3: South Asia

5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour

Amal Shahid

6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector

Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra

7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers

Danisha Kazi

8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka

Shanka P. Dharmapala

PART 4: South-East Asia

9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry

Anna Salmivaara

PART 5: Latin America

10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic

Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri

11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina

Lorena Poblete

12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dolores Señorans

Epilogue
Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anita Hammer is Senior Lecturer in sociology of work, University of Essex, UK, and a research collaborator with the international network on Globalisation and Work, CRIMT, Canada. One of her latest publications is: The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (2020).

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. Ness is author of books and articles on labour including Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, and Migration in a World of Inequality (2023).