Trade unions and global restructuring

Work in logistics and transport has moved to the centre of attention of labour studies in the past few years. One of the central assumpt...

Photo by gaby_bra From 3 to 10 December, I visited Sao Paulo/Brazil for several lectures and also had the opportunity to speak to repre...

The election of Jair Bolsonaro as new President of Brazil has put indigenous people under renewed pressure. Only recently, loggers invade...

The global financial crisis shook the global economy in 2007/2008 and its fallout can still be felt in the form of high unemployment, perm...

The production of aluminium is based on the destruction of the environment and exploitation of workers in the Global South and North alik...

Last week, I attended the tenth Congress of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) in Perth/Australia, 2...

Since 2001 it has become common to speak of a group of “rising powers”, rapidly developing countries which will overtake the established po...

The increasing transnationalisation of production and informalisation of labour relations has undermined the traditional power resources of...