| Description |
306 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Unprotected work and world politics in international studies -- The structure of the book -- 1. Invisible subject(s) : work and workers in the global political economy / Louise Amoore -- 2. The global poor and global politics : neomaterialism and the sources of political action / Jeffrey Harrod -- 3. Workers of the world ... : the 'economic corporate moment' of contemporary world politics / Magnus Ryner -- 4. The public spheres of unprotected workers / Matt Davies -- 5. Prostitution and globalization : notes on a feminist debate / Silvia Federici -- 6. Migration and unprotected work in southern Africa : the case of the mining sector / Michael Niemann -- 7. The working poor : labour market reform and unprotected workers in the South African retail sector / Marlea Clarke -- 8. The condition of hegemony and labour militancy : the restructuring of gender and production patterns in Mexico / Teresa Healy -- 9. Globalizing social justice all the way down? : agents, subjects, objects and phantoms in international labour politics / Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell -- 10. Power, production and world order revisited : some preliminary conclusions / Matt Davies and Magnus Ryner |
| Summary |
"By focusing specifically on the relations between work and the power relations in societal and global arenas, Poverty and the Production of World Politics links together debates about migration, human rights, the feminization and flexibilization of labour markets, and the rise of the 'informal economy' in innovative and provocative ways. It does so theoretically through a critical engagement with mainstream International Relations as well as Marxism, feminism and post-colonial theory. It does so empirically through explorations of the rise of millennialism; prostitution and the sex industry; the politics of the interstices of gender, labour and migration in Southern Africa and Latin America; and contemporary trade union politics."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International economic relations.
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Labor -- Social aspects.
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Poverty -- Economic aspects.
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Economic policy.
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| Author |
Davies, Matt, 1960-
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Ryner, Magnus, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2006043212 |
| ISBN |
1403996970 cloth |
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