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Tech Worker Unions in India

Rianka Roy of the Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USA contributes a new article for JCA. The abstract for “Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2022.2110925) states: The Indian technology industry is … Continue reading

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Labour and Politics in Cambodia

“Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2021.1963810) is a new article by Kristy Ward and Michele Ford, both of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, The University of Sydney in Australia. The abstract states: In 2013, the Cambodian People’s Party … Continue reading

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Labour Activism in Cambodia and China

“At the Roots of Labour Activism: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers in Comparative Perspective” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555272) is a new article for JCA by Ivan Franceschini. Dr Franceschini is with the Australian Centre on China in the World, College of Asia … Continue reading

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Korean Trade Union Strategies in Economic and Social Crisis

“Organised Labour, Dualisation and Labour Market Reform: Korean Trade Union Strategies in Economic and Social Crisis” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1536762) is a new article for JCA by Timo Fleckenstein of the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK and … Continue reading

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Hong Kong Dockers’ Strike 2013

Debates about social movement unionism and Hong Kong labour politics come together in and article by Chris King-Chi Chan of the Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Sophia Shuk-Ying Chan of the Department of Politics, Princeton … Continue reading

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Unions and deregulation in Japan

A new article entitled “The Struggle for Revitalisation by Japanese Labour Unions: Worker Organising after Labour-Market Deregulation,” has posted to the JCA website. It is authored by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe of the University of Sheffield. This article analyses the decline … Continue reading

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Latest issue of JCA available

The latest issue of JCA, available on line and soon going to print, is Volume 45, No. 1, for 2015. The contents are: An Appreciation: Peter Limqueco by Kevin Hewison (available for free download next week and with a separate … Continue reading

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Indian public sector trade unionism

David Beale of the Manchester Business School and Ernesto Noronha of the Indian Institute of Management have an article available on public sector unions in Gujarat and West Bengal. The abstract is: Using qualitative research methods and comparing two Indian … Continue reading

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