Showing posts with label social relations of production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social relations of production. Show all posts
Monday, 29 August 2016

Chinese labour in the global economy: capitalist exploitation and strategies of resistance.

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China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may ...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Super-exploitation and resistance: different forms of workers protests in China.

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China is frequently considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up. And yet, the country’s impressive growth rates are ...
Thursday, 4 September 2014

The importance of Piketty: What perspective from the Left?

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Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014) has received widespread attention within acad...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

Analysing exploitation and resistance: the centrality of class struggle.

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In my recent article ‘Transnational Labour Solidarity in (the) Crisis’, published in the Global LabourJournal and freely downloadable ...
Monday, 2 September 2013

Democratic global Keynesianism as a way out of crisis? Critical reflections on Heikki Patomäki’s The Great Eurozone Disaster.

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When the financial market crisis in 2007 and 2008 threatened the global economy, governments around the world stepped in and bailed out man...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Globalisation and the erosion of the Nordic model

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In 2007 the Finnish employers’ confederation withdrew from the comprehensive tripartite, multi-sector bargaining system, a step which had b...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

Reflections on a progressive research strategy on European labour

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On Tuesday, 6 November I participated in a workshop on the ‘Future of Trade Unions and Unions Research’ in Berlin, organised by the Hans Bö...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Can Chinese Workers Eat Apple?

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On 24 September, the iPhone 5 was launched in the first nine countries/areas, America, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Singapore, ...
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Monday, 1 October 2012

A socialist alternative through the Labour Party? Reflections on transformative politics.

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On Tuesday, 25 September 2012, I attended a local Labour Party meeting in Beeston, Nottingham/UK. Invited guest speakers were the left-wing ...
Monday, 2 July 2012

Workers of the World Unite?

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I have just published the article ‘“Workers of the world, unite?” Globalisation and the quest for transnational solidarity’ in the journa...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

New Labour's moral capitalism!

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In a speech on 19 January 2012, the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband demanded a moral capitalism with a special emphasis on the protection of...