Trade unions and global restructuring

The global economy is yet again under severe pressure. While it was the global financial market crisis, which shook the global economy to...

China’s developmental strategy has been based on cheap labour, foreign direct investment (FDI) and the assembling of pre-fabricated parts...

Public sector restructuring is generally justified with reference to the need to save money in view of large public debt resulting from the...

Unpaid internships in businesses are considered by many to be unfair. However, what if this unpaid work, takes place in a non-profit organi...

Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...

With the repercussions of the economic crisis still reverberating through the global system, what are the possibilities of labour movements...

The global economic crisis continues almost unabated and yet neo-liberalism still reigns supreme. In this blog post, I bring together a ran...

The welfare state has been under pressure since the mid-1980s and the onset of neo-liberal economic policies across Europe. Capital has use...

When the financial market crisis in 2007 and 2008 threatened the global economy, governments around the world stepped in and bailed out man...

On 24 and 25 June, I participated in the first meeting of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights ’ (SIGTUR) Futu...

Trade unions find themselves in difficult situations during times of economic crisis. Should they negotiate with the government and potenti...

Against the background of the global financial crisis and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, the public sector and services have come unde...

Exactly one year ago, on 28 February 2012, the Occupy camp next to London's stock exchange was evicted. In this guest post, Vera Weghm...

From 8 to 11 November 2012, I attended the Firenze 10+10 meeting of European anti – neo-liberal globalisation movements in Florence/Italy....

Starting from the recent massacre of striking South African workers at the Marikana mine ( The Guardian, 7 September 2012 ), in this guest...

With their book Crisis in the Eurozone (Verso, 2012) Costas Lapavitsas and his colleagues have accomplished an impressive assessment of t...

In this blog post, I provide a critical engagement with Guy Standing’s powerful book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury A...

The financial market crisis has led to global economic recession. While many banks were bailed out by governments at high costs, it is now...

The working practices of banks have come under close scrutiny recently. After Barclays' involvement in the LIBOR-rigging scandal ( BBC,...

'At this moment the opinion polls show the combined vote to the left of Pasok approaching 40 percent' states Panos Garganas, editor...