Labour Questions in the Global South

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South. It examines the diverse perspectives and regional and social variations that charact...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Jha, Praveen, editor (editor), Chambati, Walter, editor, Ossome, Lyn, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Springer Singapore 2021.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South
  • Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South
  • Chapter 2: The Concept of 'Working People'
  • Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour
  • Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying 'Value Capture' from the South
  • Chapter 5: From 'Relative Surplus Population' and 'Dual Labour Markets' to 'Informal' and 'Formal' Employment and Enterprises: Insights About Causation and Consequences
  • Section II: Informal and Precarious Labour in Global Value Systems
  • Chapter 6: Whither African trade union movement? Lessons for restitution and reform
  • Chapter 7: From 'Labour Dividend' to 'Robot Dividend': Technological Change and Workers' Power in South China
  • Chapter 8: Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008-2016)
  • Chapter 9: Primitive accumulation and exploitative labour relations and in Zimbabwe's Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector: The case of Mhondoro Ngezi
  • Chapter 10: Informal Economy in India: Persistence and Meagerness
  • Section III: Agrarian Labour and the Semi-Proletarian Condition
  • Chapter 11: The historical transformations of rural workers category in Brazil and the effects on labour unionism politics
  • Chapter 12: Peasants of Manipur: Agrarian Change, Land Tenure and Emerging Patterns of Re-peasantization in India
  • Chapter 13: Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure
  • Chapter 14: Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China
  • Chapter 15: The Semi-proletarian Condition and Urban Land Occupations in South Africa: Emergent Form of Working Class Self Organization
  • Chapter 16: Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana: Emerging Employment and Labour Relations.