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  • Labour and the Challenges of Globalization

    What Prospects For Transnational Solidarity?

    This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy.Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more ... Read more

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  • Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism

    Gender, Race and Eurocentrism

    Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate’ to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism.The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, racial capitalism and the ways in which Eurocentrism has shaped the historiographies of capitalism. In ... Read more

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  • Religion and Migration

    Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability

    This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a ... Read more

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  • Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

    This book analyses the intertwined crises facing the European Union within their global context through the lens of critical political economy. Challenging conventional narratives of European integration, it explores the power structures, inequalities, and socio-political implications that underpin modern European politics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters. ... Read more

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  • Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

    This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production, state-civil society, and conditions of class struggle can be realised. By conceiving the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Fighting for Water

    Resisting Privatization in Europe

    In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010.In Fighting for Water, Andreas Bieler draws on years of extensive ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Chinese Labour in the Global Economy

    Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Chun-Yi Lee ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Labour Conflicts in the Global South

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Jörg Nowak ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.This volume systematically ... Read more

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  • Religion and Aging

    Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Explorations

    Series Book 20 - Contact Zone
    This collection of essays explores the intersection of religious, psychosocial, economic and cultural issues in relation to the dramatic demographic shifts we are facing on a global scale. Theologians, gerontologists, anthropologists and practitioners reflect on the meaning of aging in diverse contexts such as Indonesia, South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana, Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. Assuming ... Read more

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  • Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy.Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity of labour in a period of global restructuring and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis

    Series series Studies in Social and Global Justice
    Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance.Emphasizing ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Free Trade and Transnational Labour

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade ... Read more

    $62.99 USD