Informal and Precarious Work: Insights from the Global South

Informal and precarious work remains an enduring reality across the Global South and is growing fast in the North. A recognition that this form of work is the norm globally rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. Engaging with Southern realities, as this special issue aims to do, helps contribute to a better understanding of this rising form of work globally while also providing insights into workers’ resistance and development policy limitations. Through detailed case studies from across the Global South, this special issue argues that informal and precarious work needs to be studied as embedded in concrete, historical, political and social contexts. It highlights the heterogeneity and complexity of intersecting social and material relations that underpin informal and precarious work which has crucial implications for class dynamics and political agency of labour

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present

Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, The Black Panthers . Book description: This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years – throughout the modern era of mass movements.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/history-books/1047/thumbnail.jp

Precarious work and workers resistance: reframing labour for the 21st century

Interpretations of global labor in the age of neoliberal capitalism urgently demands robust and critical historical and comparative analysis. For decades, research on labor collective organization has focused almost exclusively on workers collectively employed on a stable basis in industrial settings or in the public sector, defended by collective bargaining, represented by trade unions and inserted within relatively stable systems of industrial relations. This view, however, it has always failed to take into account the transformative potentialities of that vast, rich, and meaningful array of “precarious” work experiences and relations that allow the production and re-production of capital as a whole.Fil: Atzeni, Maurizio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios E Investigaciones Laborales; ArgentinaFil: Ness, Immanuel