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Who Works for Globalisation? The challenges and possibilities for international labour studies

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This introductory article to the special issue surveys the field of international labour studies and examines the key areas of growth over the past decade. It locates three core areas of the new literature: 1) the social construction of new labour forces across an expanding international division of labour; 2) the self-organising potential of workers, particularly within non-traditional sectors; and 3) the possibilities for transborder labour movements to help address the asymmetrical power relationships between globalised capital and localised labour. It argues that international labour studies as a field needs to make explicit its challenge to mainstream political economy by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

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  • Marcus Taylor, 2009. "Who Works for Globalisation? The challenges and possibilities for international labour studies," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 435-452.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:30:y:2009:i:3:p:435-452
    DOI: 10.1080/01436590902742230
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    1. Yu Huang & Naubahar Sharif, 2017. "From ‘Labour Dividend’ to ‘Robot Dividend’: Technological Change and Workers’ Power in South China," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 6(1), pages 53-78, April.
    2. Zajak, Sabrina, 2014. "Pathways of transnational activism: A conceptual framework," MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/5, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

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