Labour questions in the Global South. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Praveen Jha, Walter Chambati, Lyn Ossome.
• Editors: Jha, Praveen K (Praveen Kumar); Chambati, Walter; Ossome, Lyn
• Contents: Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South.- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South.- Chapter 2: The Concept of 'Working People'.- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour.- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying 'Value Capture' from the South.- Chapter 5: From 'Relative Surplus Population' and 'Dual Labour Markets' to 'Informal' and 'Formal' Employment and Enterprises: Insights About Causation and Consequences.- Section II: Informal and Precarious Labour in Global Value Systems.- Chapter 6: Whither African trade union movement? Lessons for restitution and reform.- Chapter 7: From 'Labour Dividend' to 'Robot Dividend': Technological Change and Workers' Power in South China.- Chapter 8: Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008–2016).- Chapter 9: Primitive accumulation and exploitative labour relations and in Zimbabwe's Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector: The case of Mhondoro Ngezi.- Chapter 10: Informal Economy in India: Persistence and Meagerness.- Section III: Agrarian Labour and the Semi-Proletarian Condition.- Chapter 11: The historical transformations of rural workers category in Brazil and the effects on labour unionism politics.- Chapter 12: Peasants of Manipur: Agrarian Change, Land Tenure and Emerging Patterns of Re-peasantization in India.- Chapter 13: Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure.- Chapter 14: Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China.- Chapter 15: The Semi–proletarian Condition and Urban Land Occupations in South Africa: Emergent Form of Working Class Self Organization.- Chapter 16: Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana: Emerging Employment and Labour Relations.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 331.091724; Labor -- Developing countries; Industrial relations -- Developing countries; Economic development -- Developing countries; Capitalism; Working class -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Developing countries -- Economic conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789813346352
• Related ISBNs: 9789813346345
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