Global Governance of Precarity - Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work

Zusatztext "In this extremely well researched book Nick Bernards takes aim at! and dispatches! various theories of precarious and forced labour. His critique of the ILO's role in generating a mythical ideology of properly functioning contract-based labour markets is excellent. This book represents an important academic and political intervention into debates around! and campaigns against! diverse forms of labour exploitation." - Benjamin Selwyn! University of Sussex! UK"This is a timely book as the International Labour Organization (ILO) approaches its first century. It shows through meticulous scholarship the ILO's efforts to regulate forced labour! labour migration and informal labour in sub-saharan Africa. It is the missing story of labours' marginalised . It is is a must read for students of International Political Economy (IPE) ! labour and development studies." - Edward Webster! University of Witwatersrand! South Africa Informationen zum Autor Nick Bernards is Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick Zusammenfassung This book argues that standard employment relations have always co-existed with a plethora of different labour regimes and highlights the importance of the governance of irregular forms of labour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Irregular Labour in Global Capitalism Chapter 2: The Governance of Forced Labour and the Antinomies of Colonialism Chapter 3: Urbanization, Colonial Crisis, and Social Policy Chapter 4: Irregular Work in the Postcolonial Social Order: The ILO Discovers the ‘Informal’ Chapter 5: Neoliberal Crises and the Politics of Informality Chapter 6: Reviving the Governance of Forced Labour: ‘Traditional Slavery’ and Child Trafficking in West Africa Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Nick Bernards, Nick (Queen's University Bernards, Nick (Queen''s University Bernards
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138303720
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30372-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy; RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Politics and government, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Poverty and precarity