1st Edition
Labour Conflicts in the Global South
Labour conflicts in the Global South: an introduction
Andreas Bieler and Jörg Nowak
1. From industrial relations research to Global Labour Studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism
Jörg Nowak
2. Workers’ organizations and the fetishism of the trade union form: toward new pathways for research on the labour movement?
Maurizio Atzeni
3. Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities
Edward Webster, Carmen Ludwig, Fikile Masikane and Dave Spooner
4. Solidarity across boundaries: a new practice of collectivity among workers in the app-based transport sector in Indonesia
Fahmi Panimbang
5. Turning left: student-worker alliance in labour struggles in China
Ngai Pun
6. A gendered labour geography perspective on the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014
Michaela Doutch
7. Becoming ‘active labour protestors’: women workers organizing in India’s garment export factories
Madhumita Dutta
8. Overcoming ‘small peasant mentality’: semi-proletarian struggles and working-class formation in China
Yu Huang and Kenneth Tsz Fung Ng
9. Revisiting the ‘boomerang effect’: the international relations of the trade unions in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule
Isil Erdinç
10. Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?
Andreas Bieler and Jörg Nowak
Biography
Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham University, UK. His latest book is Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (2021).
Jörg Nowak is Visiting Professor at the Postgraduate Program of Environment and Rural Development at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. His latest book is Mass Strike and Social Movements in Brazil and India (2019).
