The January issue of the Global Labour Journal is available for download here.
The Global Labour Journal is an open-access, fully peer-reviewed online journal launched in January 2010.The Journal serves as a forum to capture the plentiful and diverse scholarly work emerging on labour activities worldwide. It seeks to explore the role of globalisation in breaking down boundaries between the global/local and the public/private as they relate to labour activities.
Table of Contents for the issue:
Editorial
Articles
For a Future of Work with Dignity: A Critique of the World Bank’s Report, The Changing Nature of Work
Mark Anner, Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Uma Rani
Navigating the City and the Workplace: Migrant Female Construction Workers and Urban (Im)Mobilities
Rebecca Bowers
Competing Marxist Theories on the Temporal Aspects of Strike Waves: Silver’s Product Cycle Theory and Mandel’s Long Wave Theory
Eddie Cottle
A Decade Later: The Legacy of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Health Services Decision on Workers’ Rights
Brad Walchuk
Global Issues
The Perils of the “White Working Class”: Analysing the New Discussion on Class
Mark Bergfeld
Debates
Power Resources and Global Capitalism
Stefan Schmalz, Carmen Ludwig, Edward Webster
Book Reviews
Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama (2017) Hostels in South Africa: Spaces of Perplexity
Reviewed by Sithembiso Bhengu
Jennifer A. Miller (2018) Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders
Reviewed by Edward Dunsworth
Alexandra Guisinger (2017) American Opinion on Trade: Preferences without Policies
Reviewed by Simone Franzi
Phoebe V. Moore (2018) The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts
Reviewed by Benjamin Herr
Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis (eds) (2017) The Unresolved National Question: Left Thought under Apartheid
Reviewed by Marcel Paret
