Pons-Vignon / Nkosi Struggle in a Time of Crisis

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78371-732-3
Verlag: Pluto Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, EPUB

This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core of resistance against capitalism today.


It provides insights into the dynamics of neoliberalism and its persistence and stimulates debates about the continued impact of the economic crisis, focusing on labour as both a victim and a crucial social force which can push for an alternative.


Examples of the subjects it covers include the Indonesian Sportswear Industry, Chinese construction companies in Africa, mining in South Africa, job quality in Europe, globalised 'T-shirt economics' and the marketisation and securitisation of UK international aid, amongst many others.


The Global Labour Column, managed by the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development research programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, is part of the Global Labour University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pons-Vignon, Nicolas

Nkosi, Mbuso

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi

Part I: Understanding the Crisis

1. Planet Earth Is Wage-led! - Özlem Onaran

2. From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics - Thomas I. Palley

3. State Funding of Research and the Narrowing of Economics in the U.K. - Fred Lee

4. Globalisation and Taxation: Trends and Consequences - Ilan Strauss

5. T-shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy - Tony Norfield

Part II: Europe in Turmoil

6. Greece in the Deadlock of the Troika's Austerity Trap - Giorgios Argitis

7. The ECB's Misleading Understanding of the Euro Crisis - Carlo D'Ippoliti

8. Europe's Lost Decade: Paths out of Stagnation - Hansjörg Herr

9. The Crisis, Structural Reform and the Fortification of Neoliberalism in Europe - Christoph Hermann

10. The Economic Crisis and Job Quality in Europe: Some Worrying Trends and Worse May Be to Come - Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt

Part III: Exploring Alternatives

11. Tackling Unemployment and Growing Public Debt - Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury

12. Tax for Equity (T4E): Getting Wages Back on Track - Frank Hoffer

13. The State as the Employer of Last Resort - Cédric Durand and Dany Lang

14. 'We are Steaming Ahead': NUMSA's Road to the Left - Interview with Karl Cloete

15. Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Towards a New Progressive Consensus - João Antônio Felício

Part IV: Resisting Exploitation and Neoliberalism

16. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Outcome? - Carol Jess

17. Right to Work and Michigan Labour - Roland Zullo

18. A Site of Struggle: Organised Labour and Domestic Worker Organising in Mozambique - Ruth Castel-Branco

19. Constructing an Anti-Neoliberal Analysis to Arrive at Truly Alternative Alternatives - Salimah Valiani

20. The 2012 Strike Wave, Marikana and the History of Rock Drillers in South African Mines - Paul Stewart

Part V: Good Samaritans? Institutional Responses to Labour Right Abuses

21. Where is Decent Work in DfID Policy? Marketisation and Securitisation of U.K. International Aid - Phoebe V. Moore

22. The National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil: A Useful Tool for Unions? - Lisa Carstensen and Siobhán McGrath

23. Better Work or ‘Ethical Fix’? Lessons from Cambodia’s Apparel Industry - Dennis Arnold

24. Putting Workers' Agency at the Centre in the Indonesian Sportswear Industry - Karin A. Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa

25. Rana Plaza: Private Governance and Corporate Power in Global Supply Chains - Tandiwe Gross

Part VI: 'Workers of the World, Unite': Challenges and Opportunities of Transnational Solidarity

26. Rank and File Participation and International Union Democracy - Vasco Pedrina

27. Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity - Andreas Bieler

28. Modelling a Global Union Strategy: The Arena of Global Production Networks, Global Framework Agreements and Trade Union Networks - Michael Fichter

29. Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism - Ronaldo Munck

30. Chinese Construction Companies in Africa: A Challenge for Trade Unions - Eddie Cottle

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nkosi, Mbuso

Mbuso Nkosi is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He serves as the co-editor of the Global Labour Column journal and is co-editor of Struggle in a Time of Crisis (Pluto, 2015).

Pons-Vignon, Nicolas

Nicolas Pons-Vignon is a Senior Researcher with the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the editor of the Global Labour Column and the co-editor of Struggle in a Time of Crisis (Pluto, 2015).