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Afterword: beyond the ‘new’ international labour studies

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  • Ronaldo Munck

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The ‘new’ international labour studies set out some 30 years ago to define a new object of study and a new trans-disciplinary methodological approach. How does that project translate into present day concerns with globalisation and labour? The achievements and limitations of this paradigm are surveyed here, taking up many of the insights of this collection and charting some options for the future. I would argue that current attention to gender issues does not seem to be matched by a focus on ‘race’/ethnicity divisions between workers and the increasing impact these might well have. More broadly migration studies should, arguably, be more closely integrated into the new international labour studies. In methodological terms we need to shift from the structuralism of the 1970s to a post-structuralism that will allow us to critically deconstruct mainstream approaches to labour and development.

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  • Ronaldo Munck, 2009. "Afterword: beyond the ‘new’ international labour studies," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 617-625.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:30:y:2009:i:3:p:617-625
    DOI: 10.1080/01436590902743287
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