'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material
'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speci?c
institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it
but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the
?eld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the
most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By
systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not
to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the
contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the
challenges within this ?eld.' - British Journal of Industrial
Relations With the renaissance of market politics on a global
scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection
explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and
countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty,
low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time. The first part of
this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of
precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both
the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in
ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour,
homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the
introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive
industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The
case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the
workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism
and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and
contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious
workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their
efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal
capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of
resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional
trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.
Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this
book will appeal to students, academics and those generally
interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of
labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and
ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.
Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J.
Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K.
Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. Yun
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