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View article: Burawoy in Africa: The Influence of Southern Africa on the Sociology of Michael Burawoy
Burawoy in Africa: The Influence of Southern Africa on the Sociology of Michael Burawoy Open
In this tribute, we take a different approach and explore the influence of Southern Africa on Burawoy’s sociology. The influence of Southern Africa on Burawoy began early in his career when he himself was just learning what it meant to be …
View article: Varieties of platform unionism: a view from the Global South on workers’ power in the digital economy
Varieties of platform unionism: a view from the Global South on workers’ power in the digital economy Open
Nearly three decades ago, Manuel Castells declared the atomising effects of the new technologies of the ‘information age’ to presage the ‘end of labour’. There is little doubt that the labour movement worldwide is no longer the social forc…
View article: Contesting Digital Technology through New Forms of Transnational Activism
Contesting Digital Technology through New Forms of Transnational Activism Open
While the tech giants are using privatisation to present themselves as providers of solutions to global problems, digitalisation is creating new forms of transnational activism. Global unions are emerging as players in this contest, helpin…
View article: Building a regional solidarity network of transnational activists: An African case study
Building a regional solidarity network of transnational activists: An African case study Open
Drawing on a network of transnational activists, this paper argues that a new type of regional network internationalism has emerged in Sub-Saharan Africa. Initiated by the Global Labour University (GLU), through a short two-month residenti…
View article: Decent Work for All: Rethinking Decent Work in the Context of South Africa
Decent Work for All: Rethinking Decent Work in the Context of South Africa Open
The authors argue that there is a need to rethink what a commitment to decent work would mean in the context of South Africa, a country with a large number of long term unemployed. Drawing on their experience of researching work in South A…
View article: Politics, Policy, and Inequality in South Africa Under COVID-19
Politics, Policy, and Inequality in South Africa Under COVID-19 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in South Africa. The question posed in this article is whether the pandemic and its associated responses offer the opportunity for a more egalitarian society in South Afric…
View article: Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies
Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies Open
The article examines the origins of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) and its goal of broadening labour studies. It shows how, over the past decade, the GLJ has recorded and analysed the forms of action and organisation that fall outside the…
View article: Inequality in South Africa
Inequality in South Africa Open
The articles in this special issue arise out of the inaugural inequality conference of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, in September 2018. Inequality is a universal problem, generating m...
View article: Power Resources and Global Capitalism
Power Resources and Global Capitalism Open
issues of the Global Labour Journal and thank the editors of the GLJ for providing a platform for a more in-depth discussion of the origins, development and application of the Power Resources Approach (PRA).Our aim is to deepen the debate …
View article: Trade unions and the Polanyian countermovement: a Southern perspective
Trade unions and the Polanyian countermovement: a Southern perspective Open
Culture, Practice and Europeanization (CPE) is an open access peer reviewed platform for publishing research-based articles predominantly dealing with research into the multiplicity of social processes, interactions, and policies relating …
View article: Review of: Amrita Pande (2014) Wombs in Labor: Transactional Commercial Surrogacy in India
Review of: Amrita Pande (2014) Wombs in Labor: Transactional Commercial Surrogacy in India Open
This fascinating and disturbing study of a new form of work -transnational commercial surrogacy -is an unusual contribution to global labour studies.Transnational commercial surrogacy emerged from a combination of the new reproductive tech…
View article: Vishwas Satgar (2018) The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Vishwas Satgar (2018) The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives Open
In 2015 the World Meteorological Organisation announced that planetary temperatures had reached a 1 per cent increase higher than the period prior to the Industrial Revolution.With this warming of the planet, extreme weather conditions suc…
View article: Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha, The Spirit of Marikana: the rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa. London: Pluto Press (hb £65 – 978 0 7453 3653 4; pb £19.99 – 978 0 7453 3648 0). 2016, 224 pp.
Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha, The Spirit of Marikana: the rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa. London: Pluto Press (hb £65 – 978 0 7453 3653 4; pb £19.99 – 978 0 7453 3648 0). 2016, 224 pp. Open
Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha, The Spirit of Marikana: the rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa. London: Pluto Press (hb £65 – 978 0 7453 3653 4; pb £19.99 – 978 0 7453 3648 0). 2016, 224 pp. - Volume 88 Issue 2
View article: Marikana and Beyond: New Dynamics in Strikes in South Africa
Marikana and Beyond: New Dynamics in Strikes in South Africa Open
Political and social change in South Africa has been crucially shaped by large-scale strikes that have often taken a violent form. In spite of South Africa establishing a constitutional democracy in 1994 – and a new vision of industrial re…
View article: ELR volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
ELR volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique
Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique Open
Funding: United States Department of Labour (USDOL), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services (FMCS)
View article: ELR volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
ELR volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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