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Book SynopsisGlobal Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed rich case studies from the world outside of North America, Europe, and Australasia. Each contribution converges on the enduring and expanding significance of informal and precarious work within the Global South—the most significant factor in preventing a worldwide decent work agenda.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness PART 1: South-West Asia 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey Safak Tartanoglu Bennett 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer PART 2: Africa 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s Bridget Kenny 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors Ilona Steiler PART 3: South Asia 5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour Amal Shahid 6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra 7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers Danisha Kazi 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka Shanka P. Dharmapala PART 4: South-East Asia 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry Anna Salmivaara PART 5: Latin America 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina Lorena Poblete 12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina Dolores Señorans Epilogue Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness Index
