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Labor vs. Capital Incomes in Transition Economies. What Would Karl Marx Say?
Alexei Izyumov and John Vahaly
New Forms of Power: A Case Study of Women in Mining
Asanda Benya
Trade Union Perceptions amongst local government call-centre workers: Challenges and Opportunities for the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU)
Babalwa Magoqwana
The Recovered Factories and Argentine Labour Movement: a grey zone in a ‘new’ social movement
Bruno Dobrusin
The Hobbitt‟s impact on Industrial Relations in New Zealand 2010
Carol Jess
The ANC- Alliance and its Discontents: Contesting the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma era
Devan Pillay
Utilising new (alternative?) forms of power and leverage to influence international trade policy
Donna McGuire
The growth and organisation of a precariat: working in the clothing industry in Johannesburgs's inner city
Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster
Workers Struggles and Labour Regulations in Post-Crisis China
Elaine Sio-ieng HUI, Chris King-chi Chan
The Peasantary with Modern Capitalism: Power, Position, and Class
Ely Melchior Fair
Rethinking street traders as a promising agent of re-empowering labour movement in contemporary South Africa
Ercüment Çelik
Against Job Creation. Precarious Work as a Challenge to Employment-Centered Normativity in Postcolonial Africa
Franco Barchiesi
Gender, power and the woman question in trade unions
Sue Ledwith, Akua Britwum / GLU Alumni Gender and Trade Unions Research Group
Policies and regulations to combat precarious employment
Claire Hobden and Frank Hoffer
The perils and promise of green capitalism for labour
Jacklyn Cock
Decent work and ecological sustainability – a question of distribution?
James Lazou and Alexandre Gori Maia
Labor Relations in Uruguay under the Frente Amplio Government, 2005-2009: From Neoliberalism to Neocorporativism?
Jana Silverman
Global production networks and global union federations: Re-assembling transnational union networks by International Framework Agreements?
Markus Helfen & Michael Fichter
Global framework agreements for Africa – using the space created
Michelle Taal
Alternative Production and Consumption Relations?: Fair Trade, the State, and Cooperatives in the Global South
Michelle Williams
Wages, Deflation and the Role of Minimum Wages in the World Economy in the 2010s
Hansjörg Herr and Milka Kazandziska
Labour and the Politics of alliance
Muttaqa Yushau
From bi-national organisation’s trade unions alliance to the establishment of joint industrial relations collective bargaining mechanism: The case of Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority
Mwansa Kamukwamba
The Political Economy of Labor-Capital Income Imbalances European Solutions
Ognian N. Hishow
Labour time, worker’s control and exploitation: A moment in the practical production politics of a group of rock drill operators on a South African platinum mine
Paul Stewart
Achieving a Decent Work Agenda in South Africa: Finding synergies between public employment schemes and social security interventions within a New Growth Strategy
Rudi Dicks and Stephanie Brockerhoff
Lula’s Hegemony and Brazilian Labor Relations: The Case of Call Centers and Their Unions
Ruy Braga
Organizing the Unorganized Women Workers for Green Livelihood: A Case Study of Self Employed Women’s Association, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Sarbeswara Sahoo
“Undocumented but entitled to rights” The controversial relationships between German unions and undocumented migrants
Sönke Rabisch
What are skills? Reflections on policy in South Africa in the light of international debates
Stephanie Allais
Party Politics, Economic Agenda and Trade Unions: Nepali Context of Experience
Umesh Upadhyaya
Filipino migrant domestic workers: Implications on development and migration trends in the Philippines
Verna Dinah Q. Viajar
Making labour voices heard in impending industrial crisis- the garment industry of Bangladesh
Pragya Khanna