Recasting Workers' Power

Recasting Workers' Power

Author: Edward Webster

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1529218802

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Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.


Recasting Workers' Power

Recasting Workers' Power

Author: Eddie Webster

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781529218824

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Drawing on ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses their implications for labour of how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change. It explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalization can be harnessed for counter mobilisation.


Forces of Labor

Forces of Labor

Author: Beverly J. Silver

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-04-21

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521520775

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Recasting Steel Labour

Recasting Steel Labour

Author: June Shirley Corman

Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9781895686197

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This is a local study of steelworkers employed at, or aid off from, Stelco's Hilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario. This local study has been situated in the context of the global restructuring of capitalism. The authors content that more than ever before the dynamics of the whole world economy limit and shape the actions of its past - a process referred to as "globalizing the local." Restructuring is taking place in response to global demands. As the global net tighten, local regions and industry have less and less autonomy for independent development. Stelco is best conceived as a sit of the worldwide process of capital accumulation. How has this restructuring impacted on local regions and local worked? This question is the focus of this book, often answered in workers' and management's own words.


Beyond the Wage

Beyond the Wage

Author: Monteith, William

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1529208939

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This volume challenges the idea of wage employment as the global norm, comparing lived experiences of ‘ordinary work’ across conceptual and geographical boundaries and opening up new possibilities for how work, income, identity and care might be woven together differently.


Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

Author: Robert Latham

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1773632302

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What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that awaits us in the 2020s, particularly in the struggle against capitalism, climate change and the far right. Working within five major thematic areas, the contributors examine how to engage working class people in anti-capitalist struggles, undermine reactionary currents of ethno-nationalism while supporting anti-colonial movements, strategically build power inside and outside the state apparatus, demand new forms of resistance to address environmental crises, and effectively promote solidarity and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.


Rethinking Value Chains

Rethinking Value Chains

Author: Palpacuer, Florence

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-08-13

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1447362144

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EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organisations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a growing variety of forms. This ambitious volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to address the social and environmental imbalances of global production. Thinking creatively about how to reform the current economic system, this book will be essential reading for those interested in building sustainable alternatives at local, regional and global levels.


Recasting the Vote

Recasting the Vote

Author: Cathleen D. Cahill

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1469659336

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We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a movement that would truly include all women, regardless of race or national origin. In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. As we celebrate the centennial of a great triumph for the women's movement, Cahill's powerful history reminds us of the work that remains.


Children, Race, and Power

Children, Race, and Power

Author: Gerald Markowitz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1136692924

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A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement.