Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisPerformance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision of a human economy that was coopted in 1933 by Nazi officials in order to promote competition in the workplace. Hau’s original and startling study is the first to establish how Nazi leaders’ discourse about sports and performance was used to support their claims that Germany was on its way to becoming a true meritocracy. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike.Trade Review‘Hau has written an extremely astute, well-researched study about the use of sport to promote performance enhancement in Germany from 1890 to 1945…. Highly recommended.’ -- S.A. Riess * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *"[Performance Anxiety’s] thoughtful analysis of various discourses surrounding performance bears both broad and very specific conclusions that many scholars will find valuable." -- David Imhoof, Susquehana University * European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018 *"Sophisticated, original, and richly detailed, Hau’s work sheds new light on the histories of sports, performance, health, state coercion, gender, and modernity in Germany." -- Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Indiana University, South Bend * Journal of Modern History, March '19 *"This monograph examines the relation between sports and work as well as their meaning and exploitation in the German Empire in an impressive way…very successful and readable." -- Marcus Coesfeld, Archäologisches Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen * Journal of Social History, Summer 2019 *"Performance Anxiety will be of particular benefit to those interested in the histories of German business, labor, and the wartime economy, as well as those interested in the history of sport and of biopolitical regimes more generally." -- Erik Jensen, Miami University * Monatshefte, vol 110 no 4, 2018 *Table of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Wehrkraft and Volkskraft: The "Human Economy" and Performance Enhancement during the Empire 2 Conditioning Bodies and Minds during the Weimar Republic 3: Conditioning People's Comrades 4 The Olympics of Labor: The Reich Vocational Competitions, 1934-1939 5 The Performance Community at War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"When it comes to the issues confronting working people and their unions today, Phil Cohen knows what he's talking about as few people do . . . through knowledge born of bare-knuckle experience." --Si KahnThe Jackson Project is a dramatic, hard-hitting account of a brutal labor dispute at a West Tennessee textile mill. A historically accurate page turner, this is one of the few books about unions written by a frontline participant. In the spring of 1989, union organizer Phil Cohen journeyed to Jackson, Tennessee, to rebuild a troubled local and the problems were daunting: an anti-union company in financial disarray, sharply declining union membership, and myriad workplace grievances. In the tumultuous months ahead, as ownership of the plant twice changed hands, shutting down and then reopening to exclude union leaders and senior employees, he would risk his life and consider desperate measures to salvage the unions cause. In this riveting memoir, Cohen taken the reader from the union hall and factory gates to the bargaining table and courtroom, and ultimately to the picket line. We get to know the millworkers with whom he formed close bonds, including a stormy romance with a young woman at the plant. His up-close account brims with vivid descriptions of the negotiating process, the grinding work at the textile mill, the lives of its employees, and the grim realities of union busting in America. The last generation of the old south and it's textile subculture are portrayed as they come to terms with a changing economy, racial dynamics, and the introduction of hard drugs to their community. When the organizer's four year old daughter accompanies him to the field, a unique and unexpected dimension is added to the tale. The Jackson Project offers readers a rare insider's view of the American labor movement in action. Trade ReviewPhil Cohen is a hero of labor organizing in the South."- Damon Silvers: General Counsel, AFL-CIO"The Jackson Project takes readers inside the struggle, with vivid portraits of real people fighting for their lives and livelihoods in a rapidly changing environment. Reading much like a novel, Cohen combines the personal and the professional into a powerful message, from the frontlines of the battle between labor and management during an era of union busting."- Durham News & Observer "Great read. I knew a lot of residents who worked there for years and years."- Tom Britt, Anchor/Producer: WBBJ-TV, Jackson, TN "The official UCOMM Blog Book Club strongly suggests you read this book."- Union Communications Blog"Phil Cohen's compelling memoir.... offers an unusually vivid and accessible window into the practical operation of American labor law. The story is worth telling. Cohen humanizes the struggle without romanticizing it." - Routledge Press - History: Reviews of New Books"Phil Cohen became one of the leading union organizers in the South. Now, he is telling one of his most gripping stories in a memoir. The Jackson Project recounts his efforts to organize workers - as well as the workers' own stories, as they lived amidst dangerous working conditions and economic struggles."- Aaron Keck - Radio Host & Reporter: WCHL/News Around Town"Phil Cohen earned his nickname (Ninja Phil) by being one of the most effective labor organizers ever in a region that has never been kind to unions. The Jackson Project is powerful memoir that offers an uncommonly up close and personal look at the struggles of organized labor in the South. Cohen’s concern for factual accuracy makes it remarkable that he composed a memoir that flows so freely, much more story than history."- The Bitter Southerner

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Book SynopsisWomen as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles. Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among women working in the growing informal sectors of the global South: the weapons of organization and mobilization. This crucial book offers vibrant accounts of how women working as farm workers, sex workers, domestic workers, waste pickers, fisheries workers and migrant factory workers have organized for collective action. What gives these precarious workers the impetus and courage to take up these steps? What resources do they draw on in order to transcend their structurally disadvantaged position within the economy? And what continues to hamper their efforts to gain social recognition for themselves as women, as workers and as citizens? With first-hand accounts from authors closely involved in emerging organizations, this collection documents how women workers have come together to carve out new identities for themselves, define what matters to them, and develop collective strategies of resistance and struggle.Trade ReviewWhile acknowledging the organisational challenges faced and overcome, the essays in this important book mount a concerted challenge to the popular notion that certain kinds of informal workers are too isolated and invisible to be organised successfully. A must read for all looking to understand the organisational strategies which transform powerless labourers into worker citizens. * Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana *Women are exerting themselves across the world in wonderful ways. This is about more than combating vulnerability and oppression, although that is important enough. It is also about forging ways of living in which the human condition is enhanced. Women's organisations are reviving a sense of solidarity and rescuing the meaning of equality, while giving new meaning to the ethos of freedom. This book speaks to that agenda, and should be widely read. * Guy Standing, SOAS *While many talk about women's empowerment, this book offers concrete and inspiring examples of how it is done! The lessons and insights from these cases are relevant to all of those concerned with how to build "people power" from the bottom-up in a global world. * John Gaventa, University of Sussex *This book gets to the heart of the development challenge: by focusing on women workers, the informal economy, and organizing. With an insightful overview by the editors, illustrative case studies from several countries and an inspiring endnote by Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association, the largest organization of women workers in the informal economy, this book is a must for anyone interested in the power of organization and the intersection of employment, poverty, and gender. * Marty Chen, Harvard Kennedy School *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond the Weapons of the Weak: Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy - Naila Kabeer, Kirsty Milward and Ratna Sudarshan 1. Women and Rural Trade Unions in North-East Brazil - Ben Selwyn 2. Understanding the Dynamics of an NGO/MBO Partnership: Organizing and Working With Farm Women in South Africa - Colette Solomon 3. Organizing for Life and Livelihoods in the Mountains of Uttarakhand: the Experience of Uttarakhand Mahila Parishad - Anuradha Pande 4. Negotiating Patriarchies: Women Fisheries Workers Build SNEHA in Tamil Nadu - Jesu Rethinam 5. 'If You Don't See a Light in the Darkness, You Must Light a Fire': Brazilian Domestic Workers' Struggle for Rights - Andrea Cornwall with Creuze Oliveira and Terezinha Gonçalves 6. The Challenge of Organizing Domestic Workers in Bangalore: Caste, Gender and Employer-Employee Relations in the Informal Economy - Geeta Menon 7. Power at the Bottom of the Heap: Organizing Waste Pickers in Pune - Lakshmi Narayan and Poornima Chikarmane 8. Sex, Work and Citizenship: the VAMP Sex Workers' Collective in Maharashtra - Meena Seshu 9. Gender, Ethnicity and the Illegal 'Other': Women from Burma Organizing Women Across Borders - Jackie Pollock Endnote. Looking back on Four Decades of Organizing: the Experience of SEWA - Ela Bhatt

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Forschungsgegenstand, Forschungsstand und Analyserahmen.- Anlage der Untersuchung.- Falldarstellungen.- Vergleichende Auswertung der Fallstudien.- Ergebnis.

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Book SynopsisEinführung in die Thematik und Zielsetzung der Arbeit.- Kapitalistische Dynamiken in spätindustriellen Wohlfahrtsstaaten.- Entwicklungen am Arbeitsmarkt.- Charakteristik der Plattformökonomie.- Essenslieferdienste in Salzburg im Vergleich.- Untersuchungsdesign der empirischen Studie.- Ergebnisdarstellung qualitativer Analysen.- Diskussion der Ergebnisse und Fazit.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisWhy is it that French chefs tend to develop a syndrome of professional nostalgia? Educated to work in the most prestigious restaurants, they soon discover another reality in common foodservices and are viewed as having made an egotistical professional choice. Regardless of the improvement in their working conditions, their identity is distorted. This book describes foodservices as a whole, including international and inter-industry comparisons in the sociological field of gastronomical professionals, in an attempt to analyze their identities in different stages and diversities.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Historiography of Foodservices and the Food Industry The History of Cooking: a Skill That Originated in the Home The Birth of Restaurants During the Revolution Restaurants and Foodservices in the 19th and 20th Centuries II. A Cook's Place in Today's Foodservices Industry Sectorial Characteristics in Foodservices Subcontracting and Self-Operated Management: the Two Facets of Institutional Foodservices The Cook's Location and Employment Status III. Professional Identity: Beyond the Skills Required Modes of Apprehension for the Skill-Identity Relationship Roots of Professional Identities The Methodology of Analyzing Dominant Professional Identity IV. Identity Formation and Personal Paths Building Identity: Domestic and Social Experiences The Educational System's Efforts to Preserve What They Call the Trade of Cook Other Forms of Learning and Social Recognition for Cooks V. A Conflicting Secondary Socialization Status and Image of the Professional Branches of Foodservices Jobs and Development of Labor by Type of Organization, in the Foodservice Industry Identity Construction within the Activity in Foodservices VI. The Dominant Identity of French Cooks Identity Positioning Between Situations and Representations Critical Analysis of Sociological Models for the Analysis of Professional Identity Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: Foodservice Work Contexts Appendix 2: Survey Methods Appendix 3: Glossary List of Tables, Graphics and Text Boxes Bibliography Books and Theses Reports Reviews Index of Terms and Professional Organizations

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Book SynopsisBased on a large-scale survey, indepth interviews and comparative analyses, this book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among seven professional groups: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. The book makes practical recommendations for personal, organizational and societal intervention.

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Book SynopsisThe category of Beruf has intrigued sociology since Max Weber made it a fundamental element in understanding the relationship between the individual and society. The richness of the concept can be found in the simultaneous polarity and interpenetration between the subject’s personal profession and the feeling of a call from God: precisely this ambiguity widens the possibility of applying the concept in understanding the meaning that individuals give to their own professions, activities and, more generally, "life in the world.” Illustrating the different ways in which “vocation-profession” can be interpreted, and how it can be studied from various perspectives and with different scientific sensibilities, this book demonstrates how the concept of Beruf continues to be fertile for contemporary sociology. Contributors: Anthony J. Blasi, Andrew J. Weigert, Franco Garelli, Luigi Berzano, Robert M. Fishman, Keeley S. Jones, Laura M. Leming, Giovanni Dal Piaz, Robert C. ButlerTrade ReviewSocial scientists, religious educators, and those in related disciplines who are interested in vocational or professional developmental issues, epecially persons with responsibility for nurturing religious vocations in the Catholic Church.Table of ContentsPreface William H. Swatos, Jr. Introduction Giuseppe Giordan 1. Vocation Andrew J. Weigert and Anthony J. Blasi 2. Italian Youth and Ideas of Vocation Franco Garelli 3. Vocation as a Personal Choice Luigi Berzano 4. Vocation versus Vocational Status in the Lives of Current and Former Vowed American Catholic Religious Anthony J. Blasi 5. Vocation and Vocational “Crisis”: A Study of Italian Former Priests Giuseppe Giordan 6. Civic Engagement and Church Policy in the Making of Religious Vocations: Cross-National Variation in the Evolution of Priestly Ordinations Robert M. Fishman and Keely Jones 7. Women, Religious Agency and the Politics of Vocation Laura M. Leming 8. Seminarians and Vocation Giovanni Dal PiazRDAN_f1_i-viii.indd5/2007 4:15:01 PM 9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life: Vocation as a Social Movement Robert C. Butler

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Book SynopsisIn Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik, Barbara Allen recounts the political formation and positions of Russian Communist and trade unionist, Alexander Shlyapnikov. As leader of the Workers’ Opposition (1919–21), Shlyapnikov called for trade unions to realise workers’ mastery over the economy. Despite defeat, he continued to advocate distinct views on the Soviet socialist project that provide a counterpoint to Stalin’s vision. Arrested during the Great Terror, he refused to confess to charges he thought illogical and unsupported by evidence. Unlike the standard historical and literary depiction of the Old Bolshevik, Shlyapnikov contested Stalin's and the NKVD's construct of the ideal party member. Allen conducted extensive research in archives of the Soviet Communist party and secret police. Listen to SRB Podcast's episode on Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik featuring Barbara Allen.Trade ReviewListen to SRB Podcast's episode on Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik featuring Barbara Allen. "Shlyapnikov’s life journey, as narrated in this well-written, well-balanced, and superbly researched monograph, enriches our understanding of Russian and, especially, Soviet political culture. Barbara C. Allen has met the challenge of transforming a rather tragic story into a beautiful book – an example of life-writing at its best!" — J.-Guy Lalande (St. Francis Xavier University), Labour / Le Travail, Issue 80, Fall 2017, pp. 356-358 "Drawing on a vast body of previously untapped archival sources, including top secret FSB files, Barbara Allen presents a nuanced, insightful, and compelling portrait of the leading worker-Bolshevik, Alexander Shlyapnikov, and of the time in which he lived. Her highly readable study is vital for all those seriously interested in the Russian revolution and the fate of the Russian labor movement under Lenin and Stalin.” — Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power "This biography of a Bolshevik worker–intellectual provides a vivid alternative to the common focus on the party’s best-known leaders, and insight into Bolshevik political culture, internal debates and all." —China Miéville, October "Barbara Allen has given us a fascinating perspective on the Russian Revolution, showing its strengths and weaknesses through the remarkable but ultimately tragic story of a Bolshevik worker-intellectual." —Ian Birchall, Revolutionary Socialism For the 21st Century "Drawing on material from seven archives, five in Russia and two in the United States, as well as extensive conversations with the Shlyapnikov family, Barbara Allen has provided the definitive biography of Alexander Shlyapnikov and made a lasting contribution to Soviet history in its first two decades. [...] a must for scholars in the field and is highly recommended for graduate students who will find the chapter introductions and conclusions an excellent guide to a complex and thorough work." — Alexis E. Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota-Duluth, forthcoming in the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers (2016) "Die Biographie ist eine exemplarische Studie über den Aufstieg und Fall einer Personengruppe, die gemeinhin unter dem Begriff „Altbolschewiki“ subsumiert wird. Schljapnikow steht stellvertretend für eine Generation von russischen Revolutionären, die im späten Zarenreich aufwuchsen und sozialisiert wurden, während der Revolution von 1917 an die Macht gelangten und im Bürgerkrieg obsiegten, nur um nach Lenins Tod allmählich ins Abseits gedrängt und später von Stalin vernichtet zu werden. Schljapnikows Lebensweg besitzt ein Veranschaulichungs- und Erklärungspotential, das zum besseren Verständnis überindividueller historischer Prozesse und Phänomene beitragen kann. Barbara Allen hat den biographischen Ansatz vorbildlich angewendet. Ihr durchweg gut lesbares Buch sollte Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historikern als Ermutigung dienen, der Biographie mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken." — Andreas Oberender, H-Soz-Kult, 12.11.2015Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. From the Old Belief to Socialism 2. Emigration and the Revolutionary Underground 3. Organising Workers in the Revolutionary Year 1917 4. Labour Commissar 5. Defending Soviet Power and Unions in Civil War 6. The Workers’ Opposition and the Trade-Union Debate 7. Early NEP and the Trade Unions 8. Appeal of the 22 to the Communist International 9. Factional Politics in the NEP Era 10. Late NEP, Industrialisation and Renewed Repression 11. Purged from the Party 12. Exile, Arrest and Prison Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s, this is the first book to examine the structure and transformation of the labor markets and social stratification of contemporary East Asia, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, focusing in particular on gender inequality. It deals with social mobility and gender differences in unemployment, temporary employment and self-employment. Additionally, gender segregation, social identity and suicide rates are also addressed. Taken together, the issues raised in this volume reinforce the advantage of a comparative approach to East Asian Studies. The findings, supported by strong statistical analysis, clearly call into question a longstanding view that East Asian gender regimes and class structure are homogeneous. Indeed, this is demonstrably not the case, as Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia shows, revealing as it does considerable diversities in labor markets, gender regimes, and social mobility within East Asian societies due to historical and institutional differences. Contributors include: Chang Chin-Fen, Kim Young-Mi, Oda Akiko, Phang Hanam, Sakaguchi Yusuke, Shibata Haruka, Takamatsu Rie, Takenoshita Hirohisa, Tarohmaru Hiroshi, Xie Guihua, and Yamato Reiko.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and Framework TAROHMARU Hiroshi 2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and Taiwan SAKAGUCHI Yusuke 3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008 PHANG Hanam 4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in Japan YAMATO Reiko 5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007 Haruka SHIBATA 6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in Japan ODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko 7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market Structures TAKENOSHITA Hirohisa 8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East Asia CHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-Mi Index

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Book SynopsisThis English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the 2011 and 2012 Chinese-language volumes of the Green Book of Population and Labor. This volume starts with a chapter that explores the trajectory and future of China's demographic changes, as well as the role population projections should play in population policy through a comparison of data from the Sixth Population Census conducted in China and the United Nations population projection. Other topics discussed in this volume include changes in fertility and their implications to the labor market; demographic transition and its contribution to economic growth; employment structure and its problems; and reform of the labor market. This volume intends to draw lessons from the experiences and discuss trends of the labor market and social protection. Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor is a co-publication between Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).Table of Contents1. Looking at the Future of China's Population from the Sixth National Population Census and United Nations Population Projections Cai Yong 2. Provincial Disparities in Changes in Fertility and Related Implications Niu Jianlin 3. Intergenerational Effects on Fertility and Intended Family Size: Implications for Future Fertility Change in China Zheng Zhenzhen 4. When Demographic Dividends Disappear: Growth Sustainability in China Cai Fang and Zhao Wen 5. Accumulating Human Capital for China’s Sustainable Growth Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan 6. Changes to the Employment Structure and Problems Zhang Juwei 7. Labor Market Vulnerability in Urban China Du Yang, Qu Yue, Cai Fang 8. Employment Elasticity and Its Implications for Employment Policy in the “12th Five-year Period” Qu Xiaobo 9. Changes to the Industrial Structure and Regional Migration During the 12th Five-year Plan Period Wu Yaowu 10. Wage Increase, Wage Convergence, and the Lewis Turning Point in China Cai Fang and Du Yang 11. Intensified Reform of the Labor market and Abolishment of the Rural-Urban Divide Zhang Zhanxin and Hou Huili

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Book SynopsisIn Networks beyond Empires, Kuo examines business and nationalist activities of the Chinese bourgeoisie in Hong Kong and Singapore between 1914 and 1941. The book argues that speech-group ties were key to understanding the intertwining relationship between business and nationalism. Organization of transnational businesses and nationalist campaigns overlapped with the boundary of Chinese speech-group networks. Embedded in different political-economic contexts, these networks fostered different responses to the decline of the British power, the expansion of the Japanese empire, as well as the contested state building processes in China. Through negotiating with the imperialist powers and Chinese state-builders, Chinese bourgeoisie overseas contributed to the making of an autonomous space of diasporic nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore corridor.Trade Review“Without a doubt, Networks beyond Empires is an extremely readable and must-read work on Chinese bourgeoisie overseas’ nationalist activities in both Hong Kong and Singapore from 1914 to 1941. This book deserves a wide readership among those interested not only in Chinese overseas, but more broadly in Chinese bourgeoisie, nationalism, and international politics as well.” – Kai Chen, Xiamen University, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 18.1 (2016). “Whether in Huei-Ying Kuo’s work on Chinese nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore corridor (Kuo 2014); Leander Seah’s work on Chinese transregionalism within the Nanyang region (Seah 2011), or Richard Chu and Ruth de Llobet’s work on Chinese mestizos in the Philippines (Chu 2010; de Llobet 2014), one encounters increasingly grounded, translocal, and theoretically sophisticated work whose examinations of the historical and anthropological dynamics of identity formations within Chinese communities outside of the confines of Chinese nation-state prompt us to ask new questions about Chinese nation-formation and national identity within the boundaries of the Chinese polity.” – Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University, in A Companion to Chinese History, ed. Michael Szonyi, 2017: 301.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Making of Chinese Overseas in the South Seas in Longue Durèe 2. Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in the Emerging Anti-imperialist Nationalism 3. The Patriotic 1930s: Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in Nationalist Wings 4. Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism 5. Whose National Interests? Selling Chinese Goods along the Hong Kong–Singapore Corridor 6. United Chinese Identity among Divided Homeland Ties Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLabor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina delves into the dynamics of labor conflict during a decisive moment in the history of Neoliberalism and its crisis. How did workers react to labor flexibilization, market reforms and massive layoffs? In what way were employers able to keep hold of industrial hegemony during the crisis of Neoliberalism? This book explores these questions from a Marxian approach on peripheral capitalist countries with the aim of contributing to a new conceptualization of labor relations, labor history and collective class action. The analysis focuses on the automotive industry in Argentina between 1990 and 2007 although framed in broader temporal dynamics. Labor conflict and capitalist hegemony in Argentina relata la dinámica del conflicto laboral en el período crucial de la historia del neoliberalismo y su crisis. ¿Cómo reaccionaron los trabajadores frente a la flexibilización laboral, las reformas de mercado y los despidos masivos? ¿De qué modo los empresarios mantuvieron la hegemonía industrial en la crisis del neoliberalismo? El libro formula las preguntas a partir de una aplicación del análisis marxiano para los países periféricos capitalistas. Sobre esta base se propone una conceptualización novedosa de las relaciones laborales, la historia sindical y la acción colectiva de clase. El análisis está enfocado en la industria automotriz argentina entre 1990 y 2007 aunque enmarcado en dinámicas temporales más amplias.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are Trade Unions in Marxist theory? 3. Capital and Class Formation: on Postone and van der Linden 4. General Strikes in 20th Century in Argentina 5. The Debate about Trade Union Bureaucracy 6. Labor Relations and Conflict in the Automobile Sector 7. Workers during the Crisis 1998-2002 8. Contention Dynamics in Fiat and Ford (Further Discussion on Concepts) 9. Cycles of Protest with No Revolutionary Situations, 1958 – 2001 10. Labor Conflict in the 2000s 11. Hegemonic Despotism and Labor Relations in the Automobile Sector 12. Conclusions References Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system troubled by systemic crisis, where the old Fordist and Keynesian state order has been substituted by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal State founded on the intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation, characterised by labour deregulation, flexibility, super-exploitation and social precariousness. This is a work that illustrates the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity, generally expressed in the systemic and growing loss of social and labour rights by workers the world over. First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Ángel de Porrúa as Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI, Mexico, 2012.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I – STRUCTURAL CRISIS AND ABSTRACT LABOUR 1. Capital-labour as Antipodes? Introduction The World of Work: Extinction or Centrality in the Current Day? Why Speak of an Antipode? Why does it Persist in the 21st Century? Conclusions 2. The Labour Process and Productive Labour in Contemporary Capitalism Introduction The Labour Process (Constant and Variable Capital): a Re-evaluation Theoretical Premises Productive and Unproductive Labour Conclusions 3. The Structural Crisis of Capital and Abstract Labour Introduction Absolute and Relative Surplus Value The Crisis of Relative Surplus Value, the Dismeasure of Value, and the Dismeasure of Labour Power The Capitalist Crisis as a Crisis of Value & Surplus Value Conclusion PART II – THE WORLD OF WORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY 4. Surplus Value and the Super-exploitation of Labour Introduction Exploitation and the Labour Theory of Value Marini’s Approach to the Sociology of Work Two Patterns of Capital Accumulation: Structural Heterogeneity vs. Technological Standardisation Labour Power: Strategic to the Production of Extraordinary Profits The Precariousness of the World of Work Conclusions 5. The New Morphology of Capitalism Introduction The Socio-political Significance of Old and New Peripheries in the Global Economy The Character of Super-exploitation under Advanced Capitalism The Hegemonic of Relative Surplus Value in Capitalism and Labour Super-exploitation Critiques & Counter-critiques Super-exploitation, Surplus Value and Rates of Profit Exploitation in Advanced Countries Wages and Labour Productivity Neoliberalism, Austerity and Labour Super-exploitation in Advanced Capitalism Conclusions Epilogue: The Future of Work References Index

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Book SynopsisAngola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in colonial Angola. A prominent Portuguese civil servant dubbed the labor system in Angola a “colossal lie” because the reality so contradicted the law. Using extensive oral history interviews with former forced laborers, Jeremy Ball explains how Angolans experienced forced labor. Ball also interviews former Portuguese administrators to provide multiple perspectives about the transition to independence and the nationalization of the plantation.Trade Review'.....this is a creatively conceptualised and rigorously researched story that will be of great interest to scholars of the Portuguese empire, Angola, and the changing face of labour regimes in colonial Africa'. Jamie Miller, University of Pittsburgh, in Itinerario, Vol. 40, No. 1.Table of ContentsNote on Currency Acknowledgements Illustrations Abbreviations Glossary Introduction 1 Sugarcane, Aguardente, Forced Labor, and the Founding of Cassequel Sugar Plantation, 1899–1920 2 Cassequel and the Estado Novo, 1921 to World War II 3 “I Escaped in a Coffin”: Remembering Angolan Forced Labor from World War ii to 1960 4 African Nationalism, War, and Labor Reform, 1961–1973 5 Independence and the Nationalization of Cassequel, 1974–1977 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean. *Ports of Globalisationis now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307

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Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisTwenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis focuses on elements that are under-theorized or omitted entirely from the economists’ analysis. This includes the importance of considering class and labor dynamics, the recent rise of finance capitalism, insights from feminism, demography, and conflict studies, the Frankfurt School, the world market and the world-system, the rise of a transnational capitalist class, the coming environmental catastrophe, etc. Our goal is to fully understand and suggest action to address today’s capitalist inequality crisis. Contributors are: Robert J. Antonio, J.I. (Hans) Bakker, Roslyn Wallach Bologh, Alessandro Bonanno, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Harry F. Dahms, Eoin Flaherty, Daniel Krier, Basak Kus, Lauren Langman, Dana Marie Louie, Peter Marcuse, Sandor Nagy, Charles Reitz, William I. Robinson, Saskia Sassen, David A. Smith, David N. Smith, Tony Smith, Michael Thompson, Sylvia Walby, Erik Olin Wright.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Lauren Langman and David A. Smith Part 1. Broad Reviews and Critiques 1 Class and Inequality in Piketty Eric Olin Wright 2 Vautrin’s Lesson: Historical Trends, Universal Challenges, and Policy Responses Basak Kus and Dana Louie 3 Turning Piketty into a Sociologist? Sylvia Walby 4 Predatory Logics: Going Well beyond Inequality Saskia Sassen 5 Complex Inequalities in the Age of Financialisation: Piketty, Marx, and Class-Biased Power Resources Eoin Flaherty 6 Piketty and Patrimonialism: A Frankfurt School Critique of Piketty’s Use of Marx, Weber, Political Economy, and Comparative Historical Sociology J. I. (Hans) Bakker 7 The Missing Element in Piketty’s Work Roslyn Wallach Bologh 8 Critical Theory, Radical Reform, and Planetary Sociology: Between Impossibility and Inevitability Harry F. Dahms Part 2. Inequality 9 Beyond Piketty’s Economism: History, Culture, and the Critique of Inequality Daniel Krier and Kevin S. Amidon 10 Accounting for Inequality: Questioning Piketty on National Income Accounts and the Capital-Labor Split Charles Reitz 11 The Political Dimensions of Economic Division: Republicanism, Social Justice, and the Evaluation of Economic Inequality Michael J. Thompson Part 3. Global Inequality 12 Piketty on the World Market and Inequality within Nations Tony Smith 13 Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational Capitalist Class William I. Robinson 14 The Piketty Challenge: Global Inequality and World Revolutions Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy 15 Global Inequality, Competition, Uncertainty, and the Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism Alessandro Bonanno 16 The Piketty Thesis and the Environmental Wall: Rentier Society, Post-Carbon Democracy, or Apocalyptic Ruin? Robert J. Antonio 17 The Adventures of Professor Piketty: In Which We Meet the Intrepid Data-Hunter Thomas Piketty and Hear His Startling Story David Norman Smith with art by Tom Johnson 18 21st Century Capital: Falling Profit Rates and System Entropy Postscript to “The Adventures of Professor Piketty” David Norman Smith 19 From Inequality to Social Justice Peter Marcuse Conclusion: Capitalism, Contradiction, and Crisis Lauren Langman and David A. Smith Index

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Book SynopsisThe economic success of the Roman Empire was unparalleled in the West until the early modern period. While favourable natural conditions, capital accumulation, technology and political stability all contributed to this, economic performance ultimately depended on the ability to mobilize, train and co-ordinate human work efforts. In Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World, the authors discuss new insights, ideas and interpretations on the role of labour and human resources in the Roman economy. They study the various ways in which work was mobilised and organised and how these processes were regulated. Work as a production factor, however, is not the exclusive focus of this volume. Throughout the chapters, the contributors also provide an analysis of work as a social and cultural phenomenon in Ancient Rome.Trade Review"Despite the highly specialized nature of the subject matter as surveyed above, the volume represents a valuable contribution to scholarship by offering an updated guide to a complex field." Josaphat Tam in BMCR 2017.10.29 ''The papers highlight the variability of labour forms employed, and how firms, social networks and administrative institutions affected the organisation of labour. As such, the volume advocates more nuanced understandings of how social contexts affected economic performance – without necessarily ascribing a positive role to social institutions in lowering transaction costs. (...) In this sense, this collection of essays forms a welcome addition to the scholarly debate.'' Tymon de Haas, Clio 2018.1.002Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations of Ancient Sources About the Authors 1 Work, Labour, Professions. What’s in a Name? Koenraad Verboven and Christian Laes< 2 Sorting Out Labour in the Roman Provinces: Some Reflections on Labour and Institutions in Asia Minor Arjan Zuiderhoek 3 Contracts, Coercion, and the Boundaries of the Roman Artisanal Firm Cameron Hawkins 4 Workers in the Roman Imperial Building Industry Seth G. Bernard 5 Getting a Job: Finding Work in the City of Rome Claire Holleran 6 The Value of Labour: Diocletian’s Prices Edict Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma 7 Roman Workers and Their Workplaces: Some Archaeological Thoughts on the Organization of Workshop Labour in Ceramic Production Elizabeth A. Murphy 8 Constructing Occupational Identities in the Roman World Miko Flohr 9 Guilds and the Organisation of Urban Populations During the Principate Koenraad Verboven 10 Group Membership, Trust Networks, and Social Capital: A Critical Analysis Jinyu Liu 11 Currency and Control: Mint Workers in the Later Roman Empire Sarah Bond 12 Ars and Doctrina: The Socioeconomic Identity of Roman Skilled Workers (First Century BC–Third Century AD) Nicolas Tran 13 Work, Identity and Self-Representation in the Roman Empire and the West-European Middle Ages: Different Interplays between the Social and the Cultural Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Places and Geographical Names Index of Personal Names

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