Announcement

New Issue of Global Labour Journal, 9 (1)

14th Feb 2018

https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/issue/view/334

Vol. 9, No. 1 (2018)

January 2018 Edition

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

The Relationship between Labour NGOs and Chinese Workers in an Authoritarian Regime

Anita Chan

Political and Economic Factors Influencing Strike Activity during the Recent Economic Crisis: A Study of the Spanish Case between 2002 and 2013

Nicholas Pohl

Precarious Bodies: Occupational Risk Assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad

Rebecca Prentice, Mei Trueba

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of: Lu Zhang (2015) Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance

Yunxue Deng

Review of: Jonathan Pattenden (2016) Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach

Koyel Lahiri

Review of: R. Nagaraj and S. Motiram (eds.) (2017) Political Economy of Contemporary India

Adnan Naseemullah

Review of: Gregor Gall (2017) Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography

David O’Connell

GLOBAL ISSUES

Introduction: The Proliferation of Precarious Labour in Academia

Alexander Gallas

Organizing the Academic Precariat in the United States

Celeste Atkins, Louis E. Esparza, Ruth Milkman, Catherine L Moran

The Coming of a Perfect Storm? “Forced Privatisation” and Precarious Labour in South African Academia

Chris Callaghan

Precarious Academic Labour in Germany: Termed Contracts and a New Berufsverbot

Alexander Gallas

“Peace Academics” from Turkey: Solidarity until the Peace Comes

Tolga Tören, Melehat Kutun