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Platform Labour and Global Logistics
Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a …
Ours To Master And To Own
From the very dawn of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organised themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes and even gone so far as to challenge the premises of the …
The Global Prehistory of Human Migration
Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places …
Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed
This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's. Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in …
Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South
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 …
Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations
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 …
Beyond Sun and Sand
Filtered through the lens of the North American and European media, the Caribbean appears to be a series of idyllic landscapes-sanctuaries designed for sailing, diving, and basking …
Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism:
Central Labor Councils are the local arm of the labor movement responsible for coordinating collective activities among different unions in a region. Once quite powerful …
The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy
Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However, as platform and automated service …
The New Urban Immigrant Workforce
This ground-breaking look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case …
Urban Revolt
How do individuals and organisations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become …
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the …