Labour Conflicts in the Global South - 9781032211275

Name: Labour Conflicts in the Global South - 9781032211275
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Labour Conflicts in the Global SouthAuthor(s): Andreas Bieler, Jrg Nowak\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032211275, 978-1032211275\nSynopsis\nAgainst the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS. \n\nThis volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoin.