Descripción del título
Global Rupture : Neoliberal...
"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"--
Monografía
monografia Rebiun36199659 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36199659 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 240410s2023 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 90-04-51918-1 UPVA 998934182103706 CBUC 991001067574206712 CBUC 991013149816906708 CBUC 991011077600006709 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ d------ 330 23 Global Rupture Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South edited by Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness First edition Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV [2023] Leiden, The Netherlands Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV 2023 1 online resource (353 pages) 1 online resource (353 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work Series Volume 1 Includes bibliographical references and index Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Informal and Precarious Labour: Exploitation and Accumulation -- 3 Situated, Diverse and Intersecting Relations of Informal and Precarious Labour -- 4 The Role of the State in Instituting and/or Enabling Informal and Precarious Labour -- 5 From Class Consciousness to Political Action -- 6 Conclusions and Going Forward -- 7 Organisation of the Book -- 8 South-West Asia -- 9 Africa -- 10 South Asia -- 11 South-East Asia -- 12 Latin America -- Part 1 South-West Asia -- 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility -- 1 Rethinking Precarity in a Critical Context -- 2 Reconsidering the Value of Home-Based Garment Work in the Production Networks -- 3 Methodology -- 4 The Characteristics of Home-Based Work in Turkey -- 5 Power, Control and Issues of Labour Agency -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mobility Power and the State -- 3 The State and Sponsorship in Mobility Control and Power -- 4 Types of Mobility Control and Forms of Mobility Power at the Workplace -- 5 Research Design and Methods -- 6 Shifting Migration Regimes and Differential Mobility Control and Power -- 7 Contradictions and Crisis in the Migration Regime -- 8 Segmented Workers, Differential Mobility Control, and Variable Mobility Power in ConstructCo -- 8.1 Direct Hire Migrant Labour -- 8.2 Non-sponsored Labour -- 8.3 Tasattur Entrepreneur -- 8.4 Free Visa Migrant Labour -- 8.5 Undocumented Migrants: Escaped, Omrah (Pilgrimage Visa), and Overstayed -- 9 The 'Sponsored Labour Regime' of Mobility-Effort Bargaining -- 10 Conclusion -- Part 2 Africa -- 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s-1980s -- 1 Introduction 2 The Early Years: The Battle over Shop Hours as an Issue of Working Hours -- 3 The 1960s: Consumerism and the Five-Day Week -- 4 The 1970s: Turning Tides and New Working Shifts for Casuals -- 5 The 1980s: 'Flexibility' and Working Hours Variations -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Informal Employment: Beyond Dualist and Single Categories -- 3 The Intersectionality of Informal Employment -- 4 Intersectionality in Two Informal Tanzanian Sectors -- 4.1 Text and Practice of Labour Protection -- 4.2 Historical Trajectories -- 4.3 Visibility of the Workplace and of Workers -- 4.4 Intersections with Class -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 3 South Asia -- 5 Conceptualising Informality in Late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background to Famine Labour -- 3 Organisation of Famine Relief Works -- 4 Key Features and Regulation of Famine Labour -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Archival Sources -- 6 Precarious Self-Employment in India: A Case of Non-Agriculture Own Account Workers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Idea of Minimum Earnings or Wages -- 3 Data and Methodology -- 4 Magnitude of Non-agricultural OAW s in India -- 5 Subcontracting -- 6 Levels of Low Earning of OAW s in India -- 7 Women, Caste and Manufacturing -- 8 Conclusion -- 7 The labour process and informal wage labour in Karnataka's automotive sector -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Liberalisation and Informal Wage Labour in the Organised Sector -- 3 The Capitalist Labour Process -- 3.1 Technology and Automation on the Assembly Line -- 3.2 Organisation of Production -- 3.3 The Permanent World of Temporary Labour -- 4 Feminisation in the Automotive Supply Chain -- 5 New Location of Labour Discontent -- 5.1 Wage Differentials -- 5.2 Mobilisation of Workers -- 5.3 The State and Informal Wage Labour 6 Conclusion -- 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers' Identity in Sri Lanka -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Change in Labor Process -- 2.1 Work Distribution -- 2.1.1 Division of Labor for Work Efficiency and Productivity -- 3 Separation between Work Conceptualization and Execution (Autonomy) -- 3.1 Transformation from Apprentice Practical Learning to Training and Development -- 3.1.1 Separation between Labor and Autonomy of Work -- 3.2 Social/Structural Change -- 3.2.1 Separation between Worker and Means of Production -- 3.3 Purpose of Labor -- 4 The Reformation of Identity -- 4.1 Subjectivity and Reflexivity -- 4.2 Gender -- 4.2 Labor-Capital Relation -- 4.2.1 Resistance and (Peer-) Polity (Interaction) -- 5 Conclusion -- 5.1 Kalliya -- 5.2 Peer-Polity Interaction -- 5.3 The Change in Labor Process -- 5.4 Impact on Subjectivity/Reflexivity -- 5.4 The Overall Impact -- 5.5 Significant Learning and Future Research Implications -- Part 4 South-East Asia -- 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Informalization in Global Value Chains -- 3 Politically and Socially Embedded Informalization -- 3.1 Top-Down Processes and State Interests -- 3.2 Bottom-Up Dynamics and Workers' Needs -- 4 In-fact Informalization in Cambodia's Garment Industry -- 4.1 Subcontracting -- 4.2 Short Term Contracts -- 5 Short-term Contracts Prevent Rights Claims -- 6 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Dynamics of In-fact Informalization in Cambodia -- 6.1 Interests of the Government -- 6.2 Preferences of Workers -- 6.3 Buyers' Perspective -- 7 Conclusion -- Part 5 Latin America -- 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Delivery Platform Workers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Capital's Technological Fix and Labour Unrest in Contemporary Societies: A View from the Global South 3 A Brief History of Platform Work in Argentina -- 4 The Attack on Labour during the Pandemic: Precarious Work under the Epidemiological Crisis -- 5 Labour Unrest and Digital Protest in the Delivery Platform Sector during the Pandemic -- 6 Conclusion -- 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Heterogeneity within the Sector -- 3 The Same Rights to All Domestic Workers -- 4 Challenges in the Implementation of the Law -- 5 The Opacity of Labor Justice -- 6 Conclusion -- 12 Precarious Labour, Migration -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sweatshops in the Spotlight -- 3 Migration, Kinship and Social (Re)Production -- 4 From the Home to the Cooperatives -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Epilogue -- 1 Informal and Precarious Labour in the Global South -- 2 Working Class Subjectivity and Labour Organisation -- Index "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"-- Provided by publisher Informal sector (Economics)- Developing countries Unskilled labor Hammer, Anita editor Ness, Immanuel editor 90-04-51916-5 Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work