China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet, there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay [...]
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In our recently published article in Geoforum, Ben Selwyn and I discuss alternative models of development that go beyond the neoliberal and statist paradigms that dominate debate. In this post I offer an overview of our main arguments and highlight some of the key empirical findings drawn [...]
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The issue of precarious work and of the organisation of precarious workers is becoming one of the core themes of research not just within the sociology of work and labour but also across the whole social sciences’ spectrum. Conditions of precariousness or precarity at work are in fact [...]
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A key ingredient of China’s Post-Mao economic “miracle” is a labour regime entrenched in the export-oriented consumer manufacturing sector and premised on despotic exploitation, institutional discrimination and political exclusion of labour. It is built on the back of massive rural-to-urban [...]
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Agnieszka Althaber (Berlin Social Science Centre), 'Men and Part-Time Work in Germany'
This is the sixth seminar in the Semester 2 series of 2015 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
15 October 2015, Darlington [...]
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‘To think one word alerted the world. Qatar.’ So wrote The Australian’s Patrick Smith recently, in response to the global crisis in world football. At the heart of the controversy surrounding FIFA’s decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar is its appalling record of worker safety and [...]
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Excitement about India’s role as a rising power was again highlighted by Barack Obama’s state visit to New Delhi in January. From an Australian angle, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was lauded as a high-profile guest during the Brisbane G20 summit in November.
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Earlier this year Ed Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, addressed a specially organised gathering of business leaders with the following words: “I would be a prime minister who champions the rights of the consumer and the rights of businesses to succeed and make profits in a [...]
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