Poverty and the Production of World Politics [electronic resource] : Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy /
Ryner, Magnus.author.
Davies, M.editor.
This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and gender, and trade union politics.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Invisible Subject(s): Work and Workers in the Global Political Economy; 2 The Global Poor and Global Politics: Neomaterialism and the Sources of Political Action; 3 Workers of the World ... : The 'Economic Corporate Moment' of Contemporary World Politics; 4 The Public Spheres of Unprotected Workers; 5 Prostitution and Globalization: Notes on a Feminist Debate; 6 Migration and Unprotected Work in Southern Africa: The Case of the Mining Sector
7 The Working Poor: Labour Market Reform and Unprotected Workers in the South African Retail Sector8 The Condition of Hegemony and Labour Militancy: The Restructuring of Gender and Production Patterns in Mexico; 9 Globalizing Social Justice All the Way Down? Agents, Subjects, Objects and Phantoms in International Labour Politics; 10 Power, Production and World Order Revisited: Some Preliminary Conclusions; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and gender, and trade union politics.
Economic policy.
Political economy.
Economic sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic development.
Poverty.
Development Policy.
International Political Economy.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Migration.
Development Studies.
Development Aid.