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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. *Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Author:   Anita Hammer ,  Immanuel Ness
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.614kg
ISBN:  

9789004549326

ISBN 10:   9004549323
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   03 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness PART 1: South-West Asia 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey  Safak Tartanoglu Bennett 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism  Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer PART 2: Africa 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s  Bridget Kenny 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors  Ilona Steiler PART 3: South Asia 5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour  Amal Shahid 6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector  Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra 7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers  Danisha Kazi 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka  Shanka P. Dharmapala PART 4: South-East Asia 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry  Anna Salmivaara PART 5: Latin America 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic  Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina  Lorena Poblete 12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina  Dolores Señorans Epilogue  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness Index

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Anita Hammer is Senior Lecturer in sociology of work, University of Essex, UK, and a research collaborator with the international network on Globalisation and Work, CRIMT, Canada. One of her latest publications is: The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (2020). Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. Ness is author of books and articles on labour including Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, and Migration in a World of Inequality (2023).

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