Neoliberal capitalism and precarious work : ethnographies of accommodation and resistance / edited by Rob Lambert, Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Andrew Herod, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Neoliberalism, precarious work and remaking the geography of global capitalism / Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert -- The growth and organization of a precariat : working in the clothing industry in Johannesburg's inner city / Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster -- Bounded mobilizations : informal unionism and secondary shaming amongst immigrant temp workers in Chicago / SeĢbastien Chauvin -- Home-based work and new ways of organizing in the era of globalization / Dilek Hattatoglu and Jane Tate -- Constructing violence and resistance : the political economy of the construction industry and labour subcontracting system in post-socialist China / Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin -- Nature and insecurity in South Africa / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert -- At the cutting edge : precarious work in Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry / Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto -- Organizing across a fragmented labour force : trade union responses to precarious work in Korean auto companies / Aelim Yun -- Closures and openings : the politics of place and space in resisting corporate restructuring / Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert -- Sweatshop citizenship, precariousness and organizing building cleaners / Luis L.M. Aguiar -- Global unions, global framework agreements and the transnational regulation of labour standards / Mark Thomas -- Conclusion : towards a movement of the dispossessed? / Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod.
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