| 1. Structural Changes and Impacts on Labour |
| 1.1. New/Digital Economies |
| The false promises of digitalisation |
Birgit Mahnkopf |
| The Devaluation of Work through Digitization |
Martina Sproll |
| UBER: deregulation and silent privatization |
João Gabriel Buonavita |
| The “New Economy” challenge: Lessons from Germany and France |
Ravi Tripathi |
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| 1.2. Climate Change, agriculture and natural resources |
| The Role of Trade Unions in protecting Agricultural Employment in Ghana in the Phase of Climate Change |
Hans Awude |
| Forest Carbon Supply Chains and the International Division of Labour |
Archana Prasad |
| Rural Business, Informalisation and Precarious Outcomes in Plantation Economy |
Debdulal Saha |
| Reflexiones sobre el trabajo y la salud laboral en la producción de aceite de palma en Colombia |
Óscar Gallo, Dan Hawkins |
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| 1.3. Global Value chains, MNC and Labour Regimes |
| The Impact of Global Value Chain Consolidation and Capital Markets on Labor Conditions and Workers' Rights in Less Developed Countries |
Mark Anner |
| Smart mobile phones in Brazil: Industrial Policy and Labour Governance |
Uma Amara Rani |
| Tecnologia e gestão do trabalho no Walmart Brasil |
Patrícia Rocha Lemos |
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| 1.4. Working conditions, subcontracting and precarization |
| Development of Electricity Generation and Precarious Labour |
Naaman Kipumbu |
| MERCOSUL-European Union Negotiations: Working Class´ perspectives |
Vinícius Sartorato |
| Terceirização no setor de limpeza: precarização e desigualdades intra-setoriais |
Igor Figueiredo |
| Now or never: the future of organised labour in Zambia’s mining sector |
James Musonda |
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| 2. Trade Union Organization and Strategies |
| 2.1. New strategies and organizing |
| Worker-led attempt to build trade unions in China |
Elaine Sio-ieng HUI |
| Fragmentation in the Central European automotive industry |
Tamás Gerocs |
| Juventude trabalhadora e os desafios da representação sindical: breves reflexões sobre os casos dos Comerciários e Telefônicos do Rio de Janeiro |
Natália Cindra |
| Are the unions prepared to face the future of work? |
Kjeld Jakobsen |
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| 2.2. Trade Unions and Political Strategies |
| Teachers Unions, Political Strategy, and Educational Change in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. |
Rebecca Tarlau |
| The Crisis of National Liberation Nationalism in South Africa: The Response of the National Union of Metal Workers (NUMSA) and the Role of Worker Education |
Vishwas Satgar, Michelle Williams |
| A Comparison of South Africa and Brazil – COSATU and the ANC; CUT and the PT |
Dale Forbes, Marcelo Schmidt |
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| 2.3. Trade Unions and Power Resources |
| Trade Union Revitalization in Kenya: Acquisition and Utilization of Power Resources |
Jacob Omolo |
| Trade Unions in Transformation. An Assessment of Numsa’s Attempt to Develop Political and Organizational Independence 2012 - 2018 |
Miriam Di Paola |
| Is the game rigged? A critical appraisal of the power resource approach |
Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Dias, Webster |
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| 2.4. Global challenges and international campaigns |
| The Challenges of Trade Unions in the Digital Economy: a case study of quick delivery service in Korea |
Kyungran Kim |
| Migrant workers and the future of trade unions in South Africa: The Case of SADSAWU |
Janet Munakamwe |
| How do the nigerian transport union responds to Uber technologies |
Muttaqa Yushau |
| Building Hotel Workers´ Power through Transnational Organizing and Campaigning: A Case Study from Brazil and the USA |
Jana Silverman |
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| 3. Labour Regulation |
| 3.1 Labour Law Reforms (I) |
| Collective Bargaining and Judicial Resolution Mechanism in Brazil |
Cheng Li |
| Trade Union Reform: Towards a Better and More Effective Union System with Chinese Characteristics ? A case Study of the 2016 Shanghai Reform of Mass Organizations |
Qiao Jian |
| The impact of labour law reform on the practice of trade unionism in contemporary Nigeria |
Martin Luther |
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| 3.2 Labour Law Reforms (II) |
| Reforma laboral no Brasil e seus possíveis impactos econômicos à luz das precedentes experiências internacionais |
Marcelo Manzano |
| The labor reform approved in Brazil: a regressive attack on social rights and the public institutions that operate in the labor world |
Magda Biavaschi, Marilane Teixeira |
| A reforma trabalhista do governo Temer e o pensamento neoliberal |
Guilherme Caldas |
| La ofensiva del capital contra el trabajo en el plano jurídico: el año de las reformas laborales en Argentina y Brasil |
Luis Campos |
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| 3.3. Regulation, working conditions and working time (I) |
| “So easy and so difficult: labour regulation on the so-called new forms of work” |
Vitor Filgueiras |
| Inequality in working time: An international trend |
Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, Lygia Sabbag |
| Impact of Labour Regulations on Employment Conditions in Indian Manufacturing |
Anamitra Roychowdhury |
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| 3.4. Regulation, working conditions and working time (II) |
| Paid Domestic Workers in Brazil – an analysis of the political and cultural conjunctures of labor rights |
Thays Almeida, Marlene Seiffarth |
| Formalization of Domestic work in Kenya: A focus on Protection of Human Rights |
Monicah Gachuki |
| Labour analogous to slavery: combat strategies and socioeconomic development in Brazil |
Marileide Silva, Carolina Prates |
| Labour rights and universal basic income: challenges to social protection for maternity and early childhood in Brazil |
Nathalie Reis Itaboraí |
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| 4. Development |
| 4.1. International Division of Labour and unequal exchanges |
| The core-periphery dichotomy revisited: the Chinese trade specialization pattern with Latin American and African economies |
Roberto Borghi |
| Unequal exchanges, labor mobility from Eastern Europe and the radicalization of demographic nationalisms in Eastern Europe |
Melegh Attila |
| Hierarquia monetária e divisão internacional do trabalho |
Bruno de Conti |
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| 4.2. Labour Markets |
| Impactos da recessão no mercado de trabalho da região Nordeste do Brasil |
Paulo Baltar, Eugênia Leone |
| The Influences of Segregation and the Neoliberalism in the New Post-Apartheid Labor Market |
Naomi Generoso Faustino |
| The Tripartite Labour Supply Model as Diversifier the Cognitive Rationale of Dichotomies in Theories of Economy |
Ezgi Bagdadioglu, Cheng Li |
| Labor Market Challenges for Late Industrializing Countries |
Christoph Scherrer |
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| 4.3. Informality, Wages and gender gap |
| The effects of the Brazilian recession on wage inequality between men and women |
Carolina Baltar |
| Upheavals in infringing the formal-informal divide: Engaging gender in the Labour politics of Kerala,India |
Sonia George |
| Ecommerce agenda, future of labor and the gender gap |
Sofia Scasserra |
| The politics of transforming the apartheid wage structure in South Africa: the case of the national minimum wage |
Neil Coleman |
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| 4.4. Social structures and migrations |
| A class that no one dares to call by its name: class conflicts and the “new middle class” in Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff’s Brazil (2003-2016) |
André Martins |
| Divisão internacional do trabalho e imigração no Brasil contemporâneo |
Patricia Villen |
| Building Livelihoods Opportunities for Syrian Refugees in Turkey |
Bilge Coban |
