Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work

Edited by Maurizio Atzeni, Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones Laborales, CEIL/CONICET, Argentina and Professor, Facultad de Economia y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile, Dario Azzellini, Professor Doctoral Program in Development Studies, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University of London, UK, Phoebe Moore, School of Business, University of Essex, UK and Ursula Apitzsch, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

• Contents:Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work 1Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Ursula Apitzsch, Phoebe MoorePART I THEORIES AND CONCEPTSSECTION A. CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND FORMS OF EXPLOITATION1 Class, labour and the global working class 34Ronaldo Munck2 Imperialism and labour under neo-liberal globalization 43Prabhat Patnaik and Utsa Patnaik3 Reserve army, ‘surplus’ population, ‘classes of labour’ 53Henry Bernstein4 Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles fora global political economy of work 64Alessandra Mezzadri5 Unfree labour in the 21st century? 74Siobhan McGrath6 World-system, production, and labour 83Manuela Boatcă7 The proletariat and the revolution 93Marcel van der LindenSECTION B. SHIFTING REGIMES OF EXPLOITATION: FROM THEWORKPLACE TO THE TERRITORY TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY8 Analysing the labour process and the global political economy of work 112Kendra Briken9 Exploitation and global value chains 125Benjamin Selwyn, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Elena Baglioni,Satoshi Miyamura and Jonathan Pattenden10 Rural-urban circuits of labour in the Global South: reflections onaccumulation and social reproduction 136Praveen Jha and Paris YerosSECTION C. CONTEMPORARY DEBATES11 Commoning labour power 148Dario Azzellini12 Social and solidarity economy and self-management 159Marcelo Vieta and Ana Inés Heras13 Operaismo: in search of the political economy of subjectivity 170Gigi Roggero14 The global gig economy: towards a planetary labour market? 177Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar15 Workers’organisation, class and collective action in precarious times 196Maurizio Atzeni16 Workers and labour movements in the fight against climate change 206Linda Clarke and Melahat Sahin-Dikmen17 Sustainable work: national perspectives and the valorisation of work in Europe 217Dario Azzellini, Sebastian Brandl and Ingo MatuschekSECTION D. INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES18 Understanding the global political economy of work: insights fromlabor geography 230Andrew Herod19 COVID-19, divisions of labor, and workers’ struggles in the UnitedStates: insights from anthropology 239Sharryn Kasmir20 Global labour history – its promises and hazards 250Stefano Bellucci21 How the field of industrial relations remains relevant for understandingthe global political economy of work 264Heather ConnollyPART II INTERSECTIONSSECTION A. INTERSECTIONS OF WORK AND MOBILITY22 Capture, coexistence and valorization of workers’ mobility across borders 278Claudia Bernardi23 Migrations and global capitalist agriculture: peripheral workers’mobility and exploitation as fundamental pillars of the world-ecology 290Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau24 Migrant work exploitation and resistance in the Italian countryside:precarious lives between violence and agency 300Monica Massari25 Extractive humanitarianism: unpaid labour and participatory detentionin refugees governmentality 310Martina TazzioliSECTION B. INTERSECTIONS OF DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE WORK26 Problems in protections for working data subjects: becoming strangersto ourselves 321Phoebe V Moore27 Intensification of labour value extraction under artificial intelligence 339Baruch Gottlieb28 Class composition in the digitalised gig economy 350Jamie Woodcock29 Resistance and struggle in the gig economy 360Vincenzo Maccarrone, Lorenzo Cini and Arianna Tassinari30 De-skilling and diminishing workers’ autonomy in the digital workplace 371Saori Shibata31 Economics of the gig economy and legal arbitrage around employment law 380Jeremias Adams-PrasslSECTION C. INTERSECTIONS OF WORK AND LIFE32 Surrogacy as commodified transnational care work 392Ursula Apitzsch33 Global political economy of care and gender – crisis, extractivism andcontestation 401Christa Wichterich34 Aging societies and migrant labour force in elderly care: the German case 412Maria Kontos and Minna K. Ruokonen-Engler35 Questioning social reproduction theory: North African working-classmigrants in France and their families 422Catherine Delcroix36 Towards a global political economy of sex/work: evidence of Argentinaand Costa RicaHandbook of research on the global political economy of work 433Kate Hardy and Megan Rivers-MooreSECTION D. INTERSECTIONS OF STRUGGLES37 Trade unions (ism), social movements and the community: connectionsand politics 445Miguel Martínez Lucio38 Global unions and transnational labor movement 457Julia Soul and Cecilia Anigstein39 Evolving forms of organizing workers in the informal economy 470Jeemol Unni40 The power and politics of precarious resistance 483Marcel Paret41 Spatial dimensions of strikes 493Jörg Nowak42 Feminist strike, social reproduction, and debt 501Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero43 The political economy of extractivism and social struggles in Latin America 510Tomás Palmisano and Juan WahrenSECTION E. INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN WORK IN THE GLOBALNORTH AND THE SOUTH: EXPLORING THE LINKS INKEY PRODUCTIVE SECTORS44 Exhaust and switch: labour and the garment industry in globalproduction networks 521Nikolaus Hammer45 Imperialism and labour: palm industry in the territories of Blackcommunities in the border areas of Colombia and Ecuador(Tumaco-San Lorenzo) 534Edna Yiced Martínez46 Skilled migration, productive forces and the development question inthe era of generalized monopolies 544Raúl Delgado Wise and Mateo Crossa Niell47 Major trends in work at sea: outline of a political economy of maritime labour 556Jörn Boewe48 Counter-logistics in Po Valley region 567Niccolò CuppiniPART III PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORKING CLASS FROM THEGLOBAL SOUTH: LOCAL REALITIES AND GLOBAL DYNAMICSSECTION A. ASIA49 The political economy of labor informality in India: trends, theories,and politics 578Supriya RoyChowdhury50 Informalization of labor in contemporary China 588Jenny ChanSECTION B. AFRICA51 Precariousness and push-back: capital circuits, labour markets andworking-class politics in South Africa 600Bridget Kenny52 Work and exploitation in Ethiopia and beyond 611Andreas AdmasieSECTION C. SOUTH AMERICA53 Working class conditions and resistances in context of austerity in Argentina 623Lucila D’Urso and Clara Marticorena54 Chile – from Pinochet’s neoliberal counter-revolution to the 2019–20anti-neoliberal revolt 639Miguel Urrutia and Fernando Durán-Palma55 Brazil: inequalities, labour exploitation and new informalization processes 658Ludmila Costhek AbílioIndex

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