Jörg Nowak’s book Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India has the front cover of a “European style” house surrounded by a garden with pink flowers, and I pondered about its relevance to a study of workers’ strikes in Brazil and India. The book begins with the [...]
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The main problem with much of the mainstream literature on labour and globalization is that it tends to conceive of labour as a passive victim of the new capitalist trends, the malleable material from which globalization will construct its new world order. Capital is seen as an active, [...]
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Review of: Jörg Nowak, Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression (Palgrave, 2019).
Jörg Nowak’s book represents an outstanding contribution to international labour studies, particularly for those interested in the [...]
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Rising developments within labour challenge the conventional progressive wisdom that neoliberal globalisation has been an unprecedented disaster for workers, trade unions, and the labor movement. As argued in my new contribution to the Great Transition Initiative, the obstacles to labour [...]
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Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]
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It might be too early, to speak of the year 2018 as the year of global education struggles. However, in this blog post co-written with Joeferson Almeida* we highlight that while (wildcat) strikes in the US have spread from one state to another, the staff in the education sector meanwhile in [...]
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The ‘Global Issues’ section of the current issue of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) is dedicated to working conditions in academia. More specifically, it addresses a trend that appears to have become more pronounced across the globe in recent years: the precarisation of academic labour, [...]
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
In the tradition of E. P. Thompson, redolent of the work of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Michael Quinlan’s The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850 is magisterial and exhaustive. ‘Magisterial’ because it is game-changing in regard [...]
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