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Global Rupture
Edited by: Immanuel Ness
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...
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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.
*Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Book Overview
Table Of Content :
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
- Language : English
- Print length : 364 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9004519165
- ISBN-13 : 978-9004519169
- Item Weight : 676 g
- Dimensions : 15.5 x 2.8 x 23.5 cm
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