Industrial Labour in an Unequal World
Title | Industrial Labour in an Unequal World PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Strümpell |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2023-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 311131166X |
The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their engagement with Leon Trotsky’s concept of ‘uneven and combined development’ the authors unravel the complex relations that connect (and disconnect) labour in their sites of research with workers in other places and other times. As the contributions likewise reveal, the unevenness and combination inherent in industrial developments shape and are at the same time also shaped by the different politics workers in an unequal world pursue, as well as the historical experiences and future expectations of workers that inform these. With the attention the authors pay to the specificities of ethnographic detail as well as to broader regional and global developments the volume demonstrates the value of long-term ethnographic research and is of interest to a wide audience ranging from specialists in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology and development studies to students and activists.
Big Capital in an Unequal World
Title | Big Capital in an Unequal World PDF eBook |
Author | Rosita Armytage |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2020-01-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789206162 |
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.
We Shall be All
Title | We Shall be All PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn Dubofsky |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252069055 |
Dubofsky's careful historical treatment does not support or deny the ideology of the "Wobblies", but rather he attempts to understand the leadership and motivation of the early twentieth-century labor movement.
100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
Title | 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Sutcliffe |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2001-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781856498142 |
This innovative book builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today's highly unequal world. Bob Sutcliffe looks at current affairs, development, and international relations. For anyone wanting to understand the contemporary world, this book probes complex economic issues using innovative diagrams and charts.
One Big Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
Title | One Big Union of the Industrial Workers of the World PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 24 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Labor unions |
ISBN |
Facing An Unequal World
Title | Facing An Unequal World PDF eBook |
Author | Raquel Sosa Elizaga |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2018-02-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1526448599 |
"Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale University Over recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today. Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes: The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures The social injuries of inequality, and overcoming inequalities Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.
Manufacturing Inequality
Title | Manufacturing Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Lee Downs |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801430152 |
Through its detailed comparative analysis of employers' attitudes toward women workers, Manufacturing Inequality mounts a careful critique of both neoclassical economics and feminist dual systems as frameworks for understanding gender discrimination in industry.