Reimagining Work, Workers and Workplaces

Volume 2: Decolonial and Intersectional Contestations
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9268-14-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This edited book examines how coloniality and intersecting relations of race, gender, caste, class, sexuality, ability and migration continue to organise work, workers and workplaces. Complementing Volume 1 on enacting alternatives, this volume focuses on the structures that make such reimagining necessary. Organised in four parts, the collection analyses colonial legacies and labour extraction; migration, borders and the regulation of labour; embodied labour and gendered contestations; and technology, language and the futures of work. Its chapters analyse post-Soviet labour in Estonia, extractivism in the DRC, women’s informal work in Ghana, Adivasi media in India, migrant agricultural labour in Portugal, German immigration regimes, international doctoral students in the UK, home-based work, gender inclusive policies and multiple jobholding in India, gender transitioning in Swiss workplaces, AI and worker surveillance in the Global South, and Brazilian linguistic inequality.

Bringing sociology of work into dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, queer, migration, and organization and management studies, this volume shows how labour is governed through extraction, surveillance and embodied norms, while foregrounding epistemic compassion, Indigenous media sovereignty, decolonial multilingualism, and temporal sovereignty.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ul Lateef Banday, Muneeb

Dixit, Anukriti

Amacker, Michèle

Purtschert, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Reimagining Work Workers and Workplaces Decolonial and Intersectional contestations.- Chapter 2: Work and labour relations in Estonia from Soviet colonialism to global capitalism.- Chapter 3: Post Colonial Reverse Extractivism and Symbolic Violence the case of the DRC.- Chapter 4: They are informal you see them all over but they shouldnt be here Revisiting the place and role of informal workers in Ghanaian public spaces.- Chapter 5: Cameras as Drums Dance as Maps Decolonial Visions in Adivasi Media Production in Jharkhand.- Chapter 6: Migrant Workers Labour Exploitation in Alentejos Portugal Agricultural Fields the dark side of the so called new phase of development in the region.- Chapter 7: Manichean Sorting and the Coloniality of Labour Constructing Geographic Bodies of Exploitation in Germany.- Chapter 8: An Island of Strangers Doctoral experiences within UK Higher Education.- Chapter 9: Decolonial Feminist Dialogue on Womens Home Based Work in India Listening through Epistemic Compassion.- Chapter 10: Without the Beard Reimagining Professionalism through the Labour and Work of Gender Transitioning.- Chapter 11: We Are All Equal Gender Inclusivity in Indian Workplaces.- Chapter 12: Counter Insurgency by Design Surveillance Industrial Policy and Colonial Labor Governance in the Global South.- Chapter 13: Coloniality of Language in the Global Technology Industry The Decolonial Reflexivities of Brazilian Tech Workers.- Chapter 14: Multiple Jobholding An Opportunity to Reimagine the Full time Job.

Über Autor(innen)

Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday is an Assistant Professor at the Goa Institute of Management, India, and an advanced postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG), University of Bern, Switzerland.

Anukriti Dixit is an advanced postdoctoral scholar and Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG), University of Bern, Switzerland.

Michèle Amacker is a Sociologist and Professor of Gender Studies, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG) at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Patricia Purtschert is a philosopher as well as Professor of Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG) at the University of Bern, Switzerland.