Renewing international labour studies
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge ,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Who Works for Globalisation? The challenges and possibilities for international labour studies
- 2. Modes of Production, Rules for Reproduction and Gender: the fabrication of China's textile manufacturing workforce since the late Empire
- 3. Gendering Liberalisation and Labour Reform in Malaysia: fostering 'competitiveness' in the productive and reproductive economies
- 4. China's New Labour Contract Law: is China moving towards increased power for workers?
- 5. From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: the dual process of constructing temporary migrant labour in Mexico and Canada
- 6. Disciplining Capital: export grape production, the state and class dynamics in northeast Brazil
- 7. Legal Liminality: the gender and labour politics of organising South Korea's irregular workforce
- 8. The Radicalisation of the New Chinese Working Class: a case study of collective action in the gemstone industry
- 9. Local Worker Struggles in the Global South: reconsidering Northern impacts on international labour standards
- 10. Labouring under an Illusion? Lesotho's 'sweat-free' label
- 11. Jumping Scale and Bridging Space in the Era of Corporate Social Responsibility: cross-border labour struggles in the global garment industry
- 12. Afterword: beyond the 'new' international labour studies
- 13. Power, Production and Solidarity: trends in contemporary international labour studies