Trade unions and global restructuring

On their own, Lorenzo Feltrin is clear, workplace struggles and community-centred organising are too week to challenge capitalist exploitati...

Zero-hour contracts are often toted as a win-win, one where the worker and employer can both benefit and “decide” how much they work. In rea...

Against a back-ground of global economic crisis and heightened geo-political confron-tations, the inter-national labour movement has remaine...

In the autumn of 2016, a large alliance of Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous supporters blocked the path of yet another oil pipeli...

In 2017, Ariel Salleh published the second edition of her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (Zed Books, 2017...

The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion ...

In his latest book Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle against Work, Money and Financialization (Chico/CA: AK Press, 2017), Harry Cl...

Employability is a powerful and increasingly dominant word within the universities. Nottingham University is proud to be “ranked in the w...

Despite the ongoing ramifications of the global economic crisis of 2007/2008, capitalism continues to reap super profits. In his fascinat...

China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may ...

China is frequently considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up. And yet, the country’s impressive growth rates are ...

As consumers, we reap the benefits of globalisation. We enjoy ever-expanding product lines at ever-shrinking prices. Preoccupied with t...

Neoliberalism has faced intense scrutiny over the years from Trade Unionists and Marxists alike for its exploitation of workers and insiste...

All European citizens have just been stripped of their European citizenship rights in Northern Ireland and Britain. Hence, no right to vo...

The creation of the new European governance regime requires an explanation. In contrast to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)...

From August 2013 to June 2014, the trasnational labour project group came together in Oslo to work on the project Globalization and the p...

Image by Wikimedia Commons After five years of imposed austerity, the Greek economy is on its knees. GDP has declined by 25 per cent, u...

While movements of resistance against neo-liberal globalization have increasingly become subject of analysis, there is little agreement...

As a result of neo-liberal restructuring, the informalisation of work in the global economy has been intensified. While precarious forms ...

While London is one of the most glamorous and expensive cities in the world, the workers who keep the British capital clean are often ove...