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You Won’t Break My Soul: Black Women’s Contemporary Anti-Work Philosophies and Post-Work Experiences Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Sharla Berry
The Great Resignation represented a shift in employee attitudes toward work. While many workers sought new employment, some workers are increasingly withdrawing from work altogether. This article explores the unique ways in which Black women are adopting an anti-work stance and creating post-work experiences for themselves. Using qualitative content analysis of the works of writer, author, and activist
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Gramsci, Polanyi and the Labor Politics of Social Protection Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Dennis Arnold
The works of Polanyi and Gramsci, taken together, help us to disentangle the multiple understands of and politics around social protection. Despite Gramsci’s convincing analysis of hegemony as the organization of class struggle within limits of capitalism, he does not have a theory of counterhegemony. Polanyi, meanwhile, does not focus attention on the power of capitalist hegemony, yet his displacement
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The Centrality of the Workplace and Class Consciousness in the US South: The New Orleans Community Studies Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Cody R. Melcher, Joseph van der Naald
The popular and scholarly imagination considers Americans—especially those from the US South—to be averse to working-class politics. The South, in particular, is regarded as having especially low levels of class consciousness, hopelessly mired in racist or racialized ideologies which effectively eliminate the possibility of working-class solidarity. This article problematizes these conclusions by presenting
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Improving Labour Laws in Ghana: An Analysis of Collective Bargaining Agreements Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Abdul Hamid Kwarteng, Joseph Bawa, Ken Kwaku Tweneboah Koduah
Collective bargaining agreements are the internationally recognised tool used to create a peaceful platform for employers and employees to come to the negotiation table and address their concerns peacefully. However, the Ghanaian labour setting is charaterised by constant agitations between employers and their employees, hence the concern of the study. The research methodology used in this article
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Panama: An Analysis Of Class Location And Income Distribution Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Dídimo Castillo Fernández
In this article, the theoretical perspective centered on “dynamic inequality” and inter-category or individual differences is questioned, while the structural approach of extra-categorical analysis is sustained as essential and pertinent to sociological discussions of inequality and, further, attributable to social class, rather than internal or individual differences as posited by some theorists of
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Scandinavian Imperialism Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Torkil Lauesen
This article is about Scandinavia—mainly Sweden’s—integration into and role within global capitalism. I focus on Sweden because it is the most important in economic terms; and “the Swedish model” is the ideal type of capitalist welfare state and social democracy there is most advanced. It covers the period from colonialism to present-day global commodity chains. It also describes the impact of imperialism
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Imperialism, Ecological Imperialism, and Green Imperialism: An Overview Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alejandro Pedregal, Nemanja Lukić
This article aims to explore the relationship between imperialism and political ecology, the identifying characteristics of the historical development of ecological imperialism, and the ecosocial implications of its cosmetic adaptation—namely, green imperialism—in a context of growing threat and biophysical concern. We first provide a succinct updated definition of imperialism based on world-systems
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Unemployment Insurance Claims During the covid-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Temporary Migrant Workers Employed in South Africa Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Chioma Joyce Onukogu
The Covid-19 pandemic was unprecedented and its impact on the overall welfare of people was felt all over the world. In particular, the pandemic exposed the vulnerability of migrant workers. As key role players providing critical services during the pandemic, migrant workers witnessed limited access to social protection. Data gathered through qualitative method using face-to-face interviews, WhatsApp
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Reframing the Indian Middle Class as a Labour Aristocracy Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Aryaman Sharma
Taking from, and critiquing, both the scholarship on the Indian “middle class” as well as the scholarship on the ‘labour aristocracy’, this paper argues for the reformulation of the Indian “middle class” as a labour aristocracy or worker elite. We define the distinctive characteristics that set the Indian worker elite apart from the broader working class and highlight, through the case studies of international
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Redefining “Core Competencies”: Labor Market Intermediation in Outsourced Warehouses Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Beth Gutelius, Nik Theodore
For nearly a half century, questions of why and how firms navigate the “make-buy” decision have animated fields as varied as industrial relations and economic geography. The idea of “core competencies” became the dominant explanation of corporate decision-making processes, where any activity deemed outside of the central specializations of the firm is a possible candidate for outsourcing. Coupled with
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Can the ‘Clean Slate’ ‘Go Big’ on Its Own? The Contribution of the Union Default Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Gregor Gall, Mark Harcourt
Unions’ presence and influence in the United States continue to atrophy. One key reason for this decline is the difficulties in certifying via the National Labor Relations Act. Consequently, labor-oriented scholars have developed proposals to overhaul and/or supplement this process. One of the most far-reaching is the ‘Clean Slate’. We contend that, though a welcome advance, ‘Clean Slate’ is a necessary
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Research for Change: Reflections on Online Collective Activism Against Accelerated Policies of University Privatization during covid-19 Restrictions in Hungary Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Sara Bigazzi, Sara Serdult, Judit Zeller
This article delves into the dynamics of the “model change” within the Hungarian higher education during the covid-19 crisis, focusing on grassroots reactions in the University of Pécs. Amid pandemic-related restrictions, the study reveals how online platforms fostered collective action, allowing stakeholders discuss and voice concerns this change. The analysis uncovers a pattern where representative
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Bilateral Labor Agreement with Gendered and Unfree Labor: Vietnamese Women Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Angie Ngọc Trần
Using a systemic and institutional analysis of transnational dynamics in the recruiting, hiring and placement of Vietnamese female migrants in domestic work in Saudi Arabia, this article showcases the experiences of Vietnamese female domestic workers in Saudi Arabia and contributes to the social protection and migrant domestic worker literatures. It contributes a critical analysis on whether bilateral
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Union Strategies for the Representation of Platform Delivery Workers in Spain Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Juan Arasanz Díaz, Pablo Sanz de Miguel
Food-delivery digital labour platforms started to operate in Spain in 2016. As in other national contexts, these platforms have misclassified workers as independent contractors rather than employees, shifting responsibilities and risks onto workers who have been forced to operate under marketized relationships lacking protection. This paper analyses trade unions practices and strategies targeted towards
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Capitalising Precarity: Wellbeing of Migrants in Russia Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Rano Turaeva
This paper aims to introduce the concept of capitalising precarity to analyse the situation of precarious migration in migrant unfriendly contexts such as Russia. The material analysed in this paper concerns welfare and health inequalities in Russia. Welfare of labour migrants in Russia (both for internal Russian migrants and for foreign migrants) is de facto non-existent and largely self-organised
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Collective Voice and Organizing in Digital Labour Platforms in Portugal Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Nuno Boavida, Isabel Roque, António Brandão Moniz
The use of digital platforms for managing work grew considerably in Portugal, especially in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This new form of digital and platform work intensified the use of an on-demand workforce, not involved in the bargaining process, subject to indecent working conditions, social control and surveillance and the possibility of accessing social benefits, creating new obstacles
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Social Protection as Technocratic Fix?: Labour Precarity and Crises of Capitalism after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Collapse Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Rebecca Prentice, Mahmudul H. Sumon
After the 2013 collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza garment manufacturing building, the Rana Plaza Arrangement (rpa) provided work-injury compensation benefits to injured survivors and the families of those killed, funded by global apparel brands. This article draws upon qualitative interviews with international stakeholders—including global brands, activists, and the International Labour Organization
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From Union Networks to Lula Livre: an Analysis of US – Brazil Trade Union Solidarity Movements in the 21st Century Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jana Silverman, Stanley Gacek
The Brazilian and US labor movements are currently confronting common challenges related to changes in the overall structure and profile of the working class, the elimination of traditional sources of financing, and the weakening of allied political forces in the electoral arena. Considering these joint trajectories, the authors will examine recent efforts by US-based and Brazilian labor movement actors
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it Freelancers as Knowledge Workers: Shifts in Working Conditions and Work Autonomy in Crowd Work Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Linda Nierling, Bettina-Johanna Krings, Leon Küstermann
New forms of work via online platforms—here referred to as crowd work—have caused big shifts in the organization of work. This article addresses the question as to how the institutional and organizational conditions in crowd work have had an impact on it freelancers working at a platform in Germany. The article starts with a literature review on the settings of it freelancers in the 1990s—forming a
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A Theoretical War: Accounting for American Imperialism in the Middle East Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Jacob Mundy
This review surveys two decades of academic research on the question of contemporary imperialism and holds it up against the historical record of America’s increasingly violent entanglements in the Middle East over the course of the previous half century, though particularly since 2001. While early contributions to this literature emerged from a different context than the one they often sought or were
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Contradictions on the Thresholds of a Changing World Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Nima Nakhaei
This contribution is a transcript of a conversation that the author held with Sabah Alnasseri, Associate Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, in December 2022.
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Autocratic Union Organization and Foreign Direct Investment in the Mexican Automotive Parts Sector, 2004–2018 Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 John P. Tuman, Hafthor Erlingsson
Due to its size and importance, the Mexican automobile industry was an important topic in negotiations for the usmca agreement. A particularly contentious issue was the allegation that foreign direct investment (fdi) in Mexican parts plants has been facilitated by autocratic unions affiliated with the Confederation of Mexican Workers (ctm). Although this issue has been widely noted, there has been
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Path Modification and Adjustments in Individual Behaviour? Evidence from Female Employment after the German Reunification Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Charlotte Fechter
This paper is concerned with the question, how individuals behave during periods of institutional re-designs in welfare states. To understand behaviour after an institutional path modification, this article collects evidence on employment characteristics after the German reunification. East German women show to experience care activities for the first time later compared to West German women. Younger
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Mobilising, Politicising and Serving: The Ambivalence of the ‘Revitalisation’ of Argentine Trade Unionism Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Pierre Rouxel
Since the beginning of the 2000s, a significant literature has developed around the study of the “revitalisation” of trade unionism. These contributions often take up typologies that oppose the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ and thus tend to harden the contours of what would constitute a ‘trade union renewal’. From this perspective, this article re-examines the nature and limits of this process, in the light
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Early Labor Movement Strike Violence, the Press, and the Upton Sinclair Hypothesis Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Larry W. Isaac, Jonathan S. Coley, Hannah Ingersoll
During the labor movement’s formative years, Upton Sinclair was among the most vehement critics of the press for, as he claimed, a wide variety of “capitalist corruptions.” The authors examine one of Sinclair’s central charges in his The Brass Check, the first major book-length criticism of the U.S. corporate press: When strikers are violent, they get reported on the wire services; when they are not
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Global Labor Market Intermediaries: The Power of Leading Staffing Firms Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Ana Cárdenas Tomažič
Since the 1970s, labor markets have been neoliberalized worldwide. In this context, labor market intermediation has been increasingly privatized and the temporary staffing industry (tsi) has undertaken a process of internationalization and diversification. This article seeks to discuss how and to what extent leading staffing firms have become powerful global labor market actors while diversifying their
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Articulated Imperialism in Pakistan: a Dialectic of ‘Strategic’ and ‘Dependency’ Fixes Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Danish Khan
The role of the internal political economic factors of the peripheral countries tends to remain largely muted in the analysis of imperialism. To redress this the paper put forwards an articulated conceptualization of imperialism in the context of the postcolonial state of Pakistan by underscoring the significance of domestic political economic factors in mediating and regulating an imperialist political
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Labor Organizing During covid-19 Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Eleni Schirmer, Rebecca Tarlau
This article explores how crises become opportunities. Through a study of a progressive teachers’ union caucus in New York City during the emergence of covid-19, this piece examines how organizations convert crises into opportunities for political growth. Drawing on sociological theories of political articulation and crisis, this article explores the role of union caucuses to foment political change
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Precarious Work and the Union Advantage: Paradoxical Findings from Niagara Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Jonah Butovsky, Larry Savage
Given the documented advantages of unionization, why don’t more workers support, let alone join, unions? This article presents findings from the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Niagara (PEPiN) study as they relate to precarious work and the union advantage. While precariously-employed workers in Canada’s Niagara Region enjoyed a demonstrable union advantage and were much more likely than other
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The Mondragon Worker Cooperatives’ Employment Record 1983–2019 Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Geert Reuten
In 2019, the Mondragon worker cooperatives, which number around 100, employed over 81 000 workers. Based primarily on information from the Mondragon annual reports, this article traces Mondragon’s employment record from 1983–2019. In this period its Spanish employment growth outran that of Spain by a factor of 3.4, and that of the aggregated oecd countries by a factor of 6.3. On top of the Spanish
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Between Academia and Activism: Revisiting the History of Social Democracy at the Time of the Second International Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Lucas Poy
The last fifteen years witnessed a remarkable revitalization in the field of Second International historiography. This renewed literature put forward different approaches and perspectives, as the interest for the history of social democracy draws on academic as well as political considerations. Whereas an important trend of this revitalization came from studies that focused on social and cultural aspects
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Cantilevering the Malaise: Confusopoly in the 21st Century Employment Relationship Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Guillaume Desjardins
Critiques of the way workforces were managed in capitalist market economies throughout the 20th century exist but are not necessarily relevant to emergent industries. In the digital age, new economic sectors have proliferated. These are often associated with distinctive labor management practices. A case in point is the telecommunications retail sector—shopping mall outlets where salespeople sell smartphones
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24/7 Digital Work-Based Spy: The Effects of Technological Panopticism on Workers in the Digital Age Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Benjamin Duke
This paper is delivered from a conceptual theoretical review of grey literature: identifying key concepts and pragmatic policy interventions, which are required to address various aspects of the digital workforce. The main objective and purpose of this study is to analyze then articulate how technological panopticism, digital surveillance has changed the world of work. The study alerts us to the significant
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Beyond Algorithmic Control: Ordering and Delivery Platforms Labor Process in the Chilean Retail Production Network Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Giorgio Boccardo, Alejandro Castillo, Iván Ojeda-Pereira
This article describes and analyzes the labor process of Rappi, one of the main ordering and delivery platforms (odp) in Latin America. An exploratory qualitative case study was carried out and the results are based on the content analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews to platform workers as well as ethnographic work done in 2019–2020 in Santiago de Chile. This article contributes to, first, describe
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Precarious Work and Intermittent Life Trajectories in a Portuguese Gig Economy Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Isabel Roque, Renato Miguel Carmo, Rodrigo Vieira de Assis, Jorge Caleiras
Rapid advances in technology brought dramatic changes into the labour market, regarding precarious, flexible and informal work. The gig economy has enabled new forms of labour exploitation, social exclusion, intermittent and vulnerable professional trajectories. Not having fully recovered from the Great Recession, the Portuguese society is crossing a Covid-19 global pandemic which has accelerated the
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Wage Theft and Work Safety: Immigrant Day Labor Jobs and the Potential for Worker Rights Training at Worker Centers Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Kara Takasaki, Matt Kammer-Kerwick, Mayra Yundt-Pacheco, Melissa I.M. Torres
Immigrant day laborers routinely experience exploitative behaviors as part of their employment. These day laborers perceive the exploitation they experience in the context of their immigration histories and in the context of their long-term goals for better working and living conditions. Using mixed methods, over three data collection periods in 2016, 2019 and 2020, we analyze the work experiences
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J. Sprague. Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Godfrey Vincent
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Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Paul Almeida. 2020. Global Struggles and Social Change: A Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Manjot Multani
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McQuade, B. Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Surveillance Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Saoirse Grace
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The Resilience of Syrian Agriculture Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Linda Matar
This article assesses Syria’s agriculture under conflict by employing newly published official data up until 2019. It explains how the land reforms of the 1960s and state support for the farming sector have represented a buffer against hunger and famine as Syria was plunged into war. It reviews Syria’s agricultural history from the period after independence until the year of the uprising. The fact
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Jacob A. Zumoff, The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Glenn Houlihan
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M. Charney, J. Hagopian, and B. Peterson (eds.). Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Rishi Awatramani
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C. Chase-Dunn and P. Almeida. Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Costas Panayotakis
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Jack Saunders, Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Culture Change in Britain’s Car Factories, 1945–82 Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Alan Tuckman
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A New Style of Working: Imposed Teleworking in the Context of the covid-19 Pandemic Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Galip Emre Yildirim
In the context of the covid-19 pandemic, teleworking has largely become a useful model of work for many employees, managers and employers. This new style of working can be easily distinguished from traditional telework habits, especially by its imposed character. For this reason, this paper attempts to develop the term “imposed telework,” which has deeply changed the established habitual routines of
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Mexico City, Montevideo, and São Paulo: Collective Action by Delivery Platform Workers in Three Different Scenarios Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Clara Márquez, Ana Escoto, Marco Gonsales, Alejandro Mariatti
Latin American labor markets are remarked on for their structural heterogeneity, which, over the years, has been the result of a growing labor surplus. Thus, the digital labor platforms in delivery services that have emerged are breaking into a complex labor landscape, imposing new challenges. We intend to describe what forms the workers’ collective actions take and how these collective actions and
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Self-Organization Among Delivery Platforms Workers in Neoliberal Latin American Countries. The Cases of Peru and Chile Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Karol Morales Muñoz,Alejandra Dinegro Martinez
AbstractRecently in Latin America, numerous mobilizations of workers against the precariousness of work in delivery platforms have been developed. In this study, we argue that consolidation into strong organizations for defending platform workers’ interests is strongly related to the socio-political and institutional contexts they are involved in. Drawn upon the understanding of solidarity among workers
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Platform Worker Organising at Deliveroo in the UK: From Wildcat Strikes to Building Power Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Jamie Woodcock,Callum Cant
AbstractIt has been five years since the first strikes of Deliveroo workers in London in 2016. Since then, workers have continued to organise. The campaigns have involved five different aspects: first, wildcat strike action; second, networks and internationalisation; third, union organising with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (iwgb); fourth, legal campaigning; and fifth, wider leverage
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Emerging Platform Work in the Context of the Regulatory Loophole (The Uber Fiasco in Hungary) Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Csaba Makó,Miklós Illéssy,József Pap,Saeed Nosratabadi
AbstractPlatform works are swiftly turning into a big, perhaps game-changing force in the labor market. From low-skilled, low-paid services (like passenger transport) to high-skilled, high-paying project-based labor (like developing artificial intelligence algorithms), digital platforms can handle a wide range of tasks. Our paper discusses the platform-based content, working conditions, employment
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Steven Colatrella. Looking over the abyss: the US and Europe beyond capitalism Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Torkil Lauesen
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Technolegal Expulsions: Platform Food Delivery Workers and Work Regulations in Colombia Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Derly Yohanna Sanchez Vargas,Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda,Mabel Rocío Hernández
AbstractPrecariousness of the Colombian urban economy provides an ecosystem for the development and expansion of digital platforms, intersecting informal working relations with digital surveillance. Reconstructing legal obstacles to gaining recognition as legal and formal workers, it is argued that platforms have assembled a techno-legal network which translates discussions about workers’ rights into
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Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, The Privatization of Everything: How the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Amiya Kumar Bagchi
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Dario Azzellini (ed.). If Not Us, Who? Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Jerome Warren
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Todd A. DeMitchell, Teachers and their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jesus Jaime-Diaz,Karina Isabelle Elias
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“We Can’t Just Wrap Ourselves in the Flag:” Labour Nationalism, Global Solidarity, and the 2016 Fight to Save gm Oshawa Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Chris Fairweather
AbstractGlobal labour studies scholarship has increasingly recognized the importance of building global solidarity of workers and their unions in response to globalization. Despite this, the labour movement’s embrace of global solidarity as a response to globalization has been incomplete, and at times contradictory. The more common response to globalization has been labour nationalism, which has commanded
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Toward Theoretical Liberation: Challenging the Intellectual Imperialism of the Western Race Paradigm Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Donald A. Clelland,Wilma A. Dunaway
AbstractWe hope to encourage the development of decentered, decolonized, ground-breaking theory about ethnic and racial exploitation in the 21st century world-system. To accomplish that, we contend that academics and activists need to liberate themselves from the historical and ideological confines of the western race paradigm. Consequently, we have shaped this essay around that goal. In Section 2
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Social Reproduction at Work, Social Reproduction as Work: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Susan Braedley,Meg Luxton
AbstractSocial reproduction has received considerable recent attention from academics and activists aiming to stimulate and advance transformative political change. Yet, an understanding of social reproduction as “work” has sometimes slipped away, leaving behind important anti-racist feminist insights. Engaging with recent contributions from scholars in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, we argue that social
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Between Political and Economic Imperialism: Russia’s Shifting Global Strategy Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Ilya Matveev
AbstractRussia experienced both economic and geopolitical expansion in the 2000s. During this time, the Kremlin and big business worked in tandem to assert Russian influence in post-Soviet space. However, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 marked a new period that severed the state’s geopolitical strategy and the interests of big capital. While the
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J.C. York. Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism Journal of Labor and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Shirin Haghgou