Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Work, Organization, and Employment (WOAE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Life Reproduction in Urban Spaces
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Value Production in Industries
Keywords
- global labor
- neoliberal capitalism
- precariat
- precarious sector
- social reproduction
- labor relations
- collective organization
- collective bargaining
- trade union
- industrial relations
- crowd workers
- outsourcing
- migrant workers
- forced labor
- working class mobilization
- global south
- guest workers
- precarious work
- domestic workers
- female workers
About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations
Editors: Maurizio Atzeni, Immanuel Ness
Series Title: Work, Organization, and Employment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7883-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7882-8Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4016-1Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7883-5Published: 10 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2520-8837
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8845
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 173
Topics: Human Resource Management, Globalization, International Political Economy, Labor Economics