Global Rupture : : Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South /

Global Rupture : : Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South / / edited by Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness.

"Global Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, a...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Hammer, Anita,
Ness, Immanuel,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work
Physical Description:1 online resource (353 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editors
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Informal and Precarious Labour: Exploitation and Accumulation
  • 3 Situated, Diverse and Intersecting Relations of Informal and Precarious Labour
  • 4 The Role of the State in Instituting and/or Enabling Informal and Precarious Labour
  • 5 From Class Consciousness to Political Action
  • 6 Conclusions and Going Forward
  • 7 Organisation of the Book
  • 8 South-West Asia
  • 9 Africa
  • 10 South Asia
  • 11 South-East Asia
  • 12 Latin America
  • Part 1 South-West Asia
  • 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility
  • 1 Rethinking Precarity in a Critical Context
  • 2 Reconsidering the Value of Home-Based Garment Work in the Production Networks
  • 3 Methodology
  • 4 The Characteristics of Home-Based Work in Turkey
  • 5 Power, Control and Issues of Labour Agency
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Mobility Power and the State
  • 3 The State and Sponsorship in Mobility Control and Power
  • 4 Types of Mobility Control and Forms of Mobility Power at the Workplace
  • 5 Research Design and Methods
  • 6 Shifting Migration Regimes and Differential Mobility Control and Power
  • 7 Contradictions and Crisis in the Migration Regime
  • 8 Segmented Workers, Differential Mobility Control, and Variable Mobility Power in ConstructCo
  • 8.1 Direct Hire Migrant Labour
  • 8.2 Non-sponsored Labour
  • 8.3 Tasattur Entrepreneur
  • 8.4 Free Visa Migrant Labour
  • 8.5 Undocumented Migrants: Escaped, Omrah (Pilgrimage Visa), and Overstayed
  • 9 The 'Sponsored Labour Regime' of Mobility-Effort Bargaining
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Part 2 Africa
  • 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s-1980s
  • 1 Introduction.
  • 2 The Early Years: The Battle over Shop Hours as an Issue of Working Hours
  • 3 The 1960s: Consumerism and the Five-Day Week
  • 4 The 1970s: Turning Tides and New Working Shifts for Casuals
  • 5 The 1980s: 'Flexibility' and Working Hours Variations
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Informal Employment: Beyond Dualist and Single Categories
  • 3 The Intersectionality of Informal Employment
  • 4 Intersectionality in Two Informal Tanzanian Sectors
  • 4.1 Text and Practice of Labour Protection
  • 4.2 Historical Trajectories
  • 4.3 Visibility of the Workplace and of Workers
  • 4.4 Intersections with Class
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Part 3 South Asia
  • 5 Conceptualising Informality in Late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background to Famine Labour
  • 3 Organisation of Famine Relief Works
  • 4 Key Features and Regulation of Famine Labour
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Archival Sources
  • 6 Precarious Self-Employment in India: A Case of Non-Agriculture Own Account Workers
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Idea of Minimum Earnings or Wages
  • 3 Data and Methodology
  • 4 Magnitude of Non-agricultural OAW s in India
  • 5 Subcontracting
  • 6 Levels of Low Earning of OAW s in India
  • 7 Women, Caste and Manufacturing
  • 8 Conclusion
  • 7 The labour process and informal wage labour in Karnataka's automotive sector
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Methodology
  • 3 Liberalisation and Informal Wage Labour in the Organised Sector
  • 3 The Capitalist Labour Process
  • 3.1 Technology and Automation on the Assembly Line
  • 3.2 Organisation of Production
  • 3.3 The Permanent World of Temporary Labour
  • 4 Feminisation in the Automotive Supply Chain
  • 5 New Location of Labour Discontent
  • 5.1 Wage Differentials
  • 5.2 Mobilisation of Workers
  • 5.3 The State and Informal Wage Labour.
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers' Identity in Sri Lanka
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Change in Labor Process
  • 2.1 Work Distribution
  • 2.1.1 Division of Labor for Work Efficiency and Productivity
  • 3 Separation between Work Conceptualization and Execution (Autonomy)
  • 3.1 Transformation from Apprentice Practical Learning to Training and Development
  • 3.1.1 Separation between Labor and Autonomy of Work
  • 3.2 Social/Structural Change
  • 3.2.1 Separation between Worker and Means of Production
  • 3.3 Purpose of Labor
  • 4 The Reformation of Identity
  • 4.1 Subjectivity and Reflexivity
  • 4.2 Gender
  • 4.2 Labor-Capital Relation
  • 4.2.1 Resistance and (Peer-) Polity (Interaction)
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 5.1 Kalliya
  • 5.2 Peer-Polity Interaction
  • 5.3 The Change in Labor Process
  • 5.4 Impact on Subjectivity/Reflexivity
  • 5.4 The Overall Impact
  • 5.5 Significant Learning and Future Research Implications
  • Part 4 South-East Asia
  • 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Informalization in Global Value Chains
  • 3 Politically and Socially Embedded Informalization
  • 3.1 Top-Down Processes and State Interests
  • 3.2 Bottom-Up Dynamics and Workers' Needs
  • 4 In-fact Informalization in Cambodia's Garment Industry
  • 4.1 Subcontracting
  • 4.2 Short Term Contracts
  • 5 Short-term Contracts Prevent Rights Claims
  • 6 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Dynamics of In-fact Informalization in Cambodia
  • 6.1 Interests of the Government
  • 6.2 Preferences of Workers
  • 6.3 Buyers' Perspective
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Part 5 Latin America
  • 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Delivery Platform Workers
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Capital's Technological Fix and Labour Unrest in Contemporary Societies: A View from the Global South.
  • 3 A Brief History of Platform Work in Argentina
  • 4 The Attack on Labour during the Pandemic: Precarious Work under the Epidemiological Crisis
  • 5 Labour Unrest and Digital Protest in the Delivery Platform Sector during the Pandemic
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Heterogeneity within the Sector
  • 3 The Same Rights to All Domestic Workers
  • 4 Challenges in the Implementation of the Law
  • 5 The Opacity of Labor Justice
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 12 Precarious Labour, Migration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Sweatshops in the Spotlight
  • 3 Migration, Kinship and Social (Re)Production
  • 4 From the Home to the Cooperatives
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Epilogue
  • 1 Informal and Precarious Labour in the Global South
  • 2 Working Class Subjectivity and Labour Organisation
  • Index.

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