Poverty and the Production of World Politics

Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-349-54593-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and gender, and trade union politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryner, Magnus

Davies, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Davies & M.Ryner Invisible Subject(s): Work and Workers in the Global Political Economy; L.Amoore The Global Poor and Global Politics; Neo-Materialism and the Sources of Political Action; J.Harrod Workers of the World. The 'Economic-Corporate Moment' of Contemporary World Politics; M.Ryner The Public Spheres of Unprotected Workers; M.Davies Prostitution and Globalization: Notes on a Feminist Debate; S.Federici Migration and Unprotected Work in Southern Africa:The Case of the Mining Sector; M.Niemann The Working Poor: Labour Market Reform and Unprotected Workers in South Africa's Retail Sector; M.Clarke The Condition of Hegemony and Labour Militancy:The Restructuring of Gender and Production Patterns in Mexico; T.Healy Globalizing Social Justice All the Way Down? Agents, Subjects, Objects and Phantoms in International Labor Politics; D.Stevis & T.Boswell Power, Production and World Order Revisited: Some Preliminary Conclusions; M.Ryner & M.Davies References Index

Über Autor(innen)

LOUISE AMOORE Lecturer in Political Geography, University of Durham, UK
TERRY BOSWELL Professor of Sociology, Emory University, USA
MARLEA CLARKE Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Canada
SILVIA FEDERICI has taught Political Philosophy and International Studies, Hofstra University, USA
JEFFREY HARROD Visiting Professor, International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TERESA HEALY Senior Researcher, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), Canada
MICHAEL NIEMANN works in the International Studies Programme at Trinity College, USA
DIMITRIS STEVIS Professor of International Politics, Colorado State University, USA