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Tag Archives: Labour
Unfree Labour and Coffee in Colonial Indonesia
In a new review at JCA, long-time Editorial Board member Alec Gordon reviews Jan Breman’s Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java, published by the Amsterdam University Press in 2015. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Gordon, Colonial power, Indonesia, Jan Bremen, Labour
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Commodifying labour power in China
JCA co-editor Richard Westra, from the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University in Japan, has a new Commentary available from the publisher’s website. “A Theoretical Note on Commodification of Labour Power in China and the Global Putting-Out System” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1324040) … Continue reading
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Tagged China, commodification of labour power, global value chains, Labour, Marx, Marxism, Polanyi, putting-out system, Richard Westra
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Neo-liberalism and Mining in India
Matilde Adduci of the Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società at the University of Turin has a new article, just made available at the JCA publisher’s page. Neo-Liberalism, Mining and Labour in the Indian State of Odisha: Outlining a Political … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, India, Labour, Matilde Adduci, mining, Neo-liberalism, Odisha
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Gender, law and precarity in Korea
In a new article at JCA, Joohee Lee of the Department of Sociology at Ewha Womens University, South Korea writes on labour protection laws and their impacts on women. “More Protection, Still Gendered: The Effects of Non-Standard Employment Protection Acts … Continue reading
Labour and “social upgrading” in China
Regular JCA book reviewer Kosmas Tsokhas has a new review available at the publisher’s website for the journal. He writes about The End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and “Social Upgrading” in China by Florian Butollo, and published by the … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Kosmas Tsokhas, Labour, overaccumulation, surplus value, underconsumption
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Work, employment and society
The SAGE journal, Work, Employment and Society, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by allowing free access to all its articles for 30 days. The topics covered in the journal are certainly of interest for many JCA readers.
Sweating workers in Asia
A new article is available at the publisher’s website. “Working Overtime in East Asia: Convergence or Divergence?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1144778) is authored by Ming-Chang Tsai, Michio Nitta, Sang-Wook Kim and Weidong Wang. The authors are, respectively, from: Research Center for Humanities … Continue reading
Labour struggle in Vietnam and China
In her review article published at the JCA publisher’s website, Tu Phuong Nguyen reviews three recent books on labour politics in Vietnam and China: Angie Tran’s Ties That Bind: Cultural Identity, Class and Law in Vietnam’s Labor Resistance; Jeffrey Becker’s … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, China, Labour, labour law, Labour resistance, post-socialist, Tu Phuong Nguyen, Vietnam
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Sky high protest in Korea
Yoonkyung Lee of the Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton has a new article posted at the JCA website. Sky Protest: New Forms of Labour Resistance in Neo-Liberal Korea (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1012647) examines the rise of “sky … Continue reading
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Tagged inequality, Labour, Labour protest, Neo-liberalism, sky protest, South Korea, Yoonkyung Lee
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China’s capitalism
JCA co-editor Richard Westra has reviewed the Victor Nee and Sonja Opper authored Capitalism From Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1010560) published by Harvard University Press. Described as “path-breaking,” the book discusses the rise of Chinese capitalism … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, China, Labour, Richard Westra, Sonja Opper, Victor Nee
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