ISSN 2009-2431

Editorial

For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity. Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys, Laurence Cox and Ana Margarida Esteves (pp. 1 – 14)
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For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity

Development in China and Germany: another world is possible? (action note) Wolfgang Schaumberg (pp. 15 – 21)
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The neoliberal rise of East Asia and social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge (peer-reviewed article) Dae-Oup Chang (pp. 22 – 51)
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Labour movements in the global South: a prominent role in struggles against neo-liberal globalisation? (action note) Joe Sutcliffe (pp. 52 – 60)
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On working-class environmentalism: a historical and transnational overview (peer-reviewed article) Stefania Barca (pp. 61 – 80)
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Mending the breach between labour and nature: environmental engagements of trade unions and the North-South divide (peer-reviewed article) Nora Räthzel and David Uzzell (pp. 81 – 100)
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Coalitions of labor unions and NGOs: the room for maneuver of the German Clean Clothes Campaign (peer-reviewed article) Melanie Kryst (pp. 101 – 129)
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Trade unions and the unemployed: towards a dialectical approach (peer-reviewed article) Jean Faniel (pp. 130 – 157)
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Grasping new forms of unionism: the case of childcare services in Quebec (peer-reviewed article) Martine D’Amours, Guy Bellemare and Louise Briand (pp. 158 – 180)
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“Inspire and conspire”: Italian precarious workers between self-organization and self-advocacy  (peer-reviewed article) Annalisa Murgia and Giulia Selmi (pp. 181 – 196)
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Sobre la precariedad y sus fugas. La experiencia de las Oficinas de Derechos Sociales (peer-reviewed article) Alberto Arribas Lozano (pp. 197 – 229)
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Liberation of, through, or from work? Postcolonial Africa and the problem with “job creation” in the global crisis (peer-reviewed article) Franco Barchiesi (pp. 230 – 253)
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A common assembly: multitude, assemblies, and a new politics of the common  (peer-reviewed article) Elise Thorburn (pp. 254 – 279)
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A new species of shark: towards direct unionism (action note) Godfrey Moase (pp. 280 – 295)
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The Chilean student movement of 2011 – 2012: challenging the marketization of education (event analysis) Nicolás Somma (pp. 296 – 309)
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Organizing process, organizing life: collective responses to precarity in Ecuador (action note) Tristan Partridge (pp. 310 – 316)
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An emancipatory global labour studies is necessary! On rethinking the global labour movement in the Hour of Furnaces (article) Peter Waterman (pp. 317 – 368)
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General articles

Connecting social movements and political moments: bringing movement building tools from global justice to Occupy Wall Street activism (peer-reviewed article) Jackie Smith (pp. 369 – 382)
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Democratisation from Poland to Portugal, 1970s – 1990s and in Tunisia and Egypt since 2010  (article) Kenneth Good (pp. 383 – 423)
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From terrorists to revolutionaries: the emergence of “youth” in the Arab world and the discourse of globalization  (peer-reviewed article) Mayssoun Sukarieh (pp. 424 – 437)
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The abolitionist approach: critical comparisons and challenges within the animal rights movement  (peer-reviewed article) Corey Wrenn (pp. 438 – 458)
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La desafección al sistema agroalimentario: ciudadanía y redes sociales  (peer-reviewed article) Ángel Calle Collado, Marta Soler Montiel, Isabel Vara Sánchez, David Gallar Hernández (pp. 459 – 489)
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Power imbalances and claiming credit in coalition campaigns: Greenpeace and Bhopal (peer-reviewed article) Tomás Mac Sheoin (pp. 490 – 511)
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Ben Selwyn, Workers, state and development in Brazil: powers of labour, chains of value. Reviewed by Ana Margarida Esteves.

Jai Sen (ed.), Interrogating empires and Imagining alternatives. Reviewed by Guy Lancaster.

Janet Conway,  Edges of global justice: the World Social Forum and its “others”. Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.

Alan Bourke, Tia Dafnos and Kip Markus (eds.), Lumpencity: discourses of marginality / marginalizing discourses. Reviewed by Chris Richardson.

Craig Calhoun, The roots of radicalism: tradition, the public sphere and early nineteenth century social movements. Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.

Call for papers volume 5 issue 2

Open call (p. 529)
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