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Intro; Contents; Introduction; Transformations of Capitalism and the World of Work; Precarious Work and the Organization of Workers; Book Summary; References; Life Reproduction in Urban Spaces; 1 Rethinking Labor Unionism in Spaces of Precarious Work; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Precarious Work and the New Capitalism; 1.3 Precarity and the Labor Movement; 1.4 Labor's Regulatory Strategies in Urban Space; 1.5 From Regulatory Strategies to Rethinking Labor Unionism; Works Cited
2 Organizing Immigrant Workers Through 'Communities of Coping': An Analysis of Migrant Domestic Workers' Journey from an Individual Labour of Love to a Collective Labour with RightsAbstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Community Organizing of Immigrant Workers; 2.3 Industrial Context and 'Community of Coping'; 2.4 Research Methodology; 2.5 The Maternalistic and Servant Dynamics in the Domestic Worker Sector; 2.6 Redefining Employer/Employee Relationship and Fostering Labour Solidarity; 2.7 Outcomes: Organizing for Whom, and for What?; 2.8 Conclusion; References
3 Mobilizing Concealment and Spectacle Among Uruguay's Waste-PickersAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Waste Work and Precarious Labor Organizing; 3.3 The Spectacular Politics of the UCRUS; 3.4 Labor at the Landfill: Affect and Concealment; 3.5 Reconfiguring Struggle at the Aries Recycling Plant; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 Local Sweatshops in the Global Economy: Accumulation Dynamics and the Manufacturing of a Reserve Army; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Some Definitions on Sweatshops and Forced Labour; 4.3 Accumulation Dynamics and the Return of the Sweatshop
4.4 Fashion as a Problem for Workers4.5 Manufacturing a Reserve Army; 4.6 Responses to Abuses in Local Sweatshops; 4.7 Lessons from the Anti-sweatshop Movement in Buenos Aires; 4.8 Conclusions; Bibliography; 5 Labour Politics and South African Retail Workers: Enduring Collectivities in the Face of Precariousness; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Labour Politics: The Limits of the Spectacular and the Strategic; 5.3 Retail Worker Politics Constituted and Reshaped; 5.4 Wal-Mart: Collectivities and Contradictions; 5.4.1 Wal-Mart, Massmart and the Complexity of Company Terrain
5.4.2 Cambridge Food: Labour Broking, Precarious Conditions and Branch Collectives5.5 Game: Shop Stewards, Union Advances but Victimisation; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Value Production in Industries; 6 The Collective Resistance of China's Industrial Workers; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Re-emergence of Labor Markets in Post-socialist China; 6.3 Anti-privatization Protests by Chinese State Workers; 6.4 Chinese Rural Migrant Worker Resistance; 6.5 Student Interns or Cheap Workers?; 6.6 Subcontracted Workers and Work Inequalities
2 Organizing Immigrant Workers Through 'Communities of Coping': An Analysis of Migrant Domestic Workers' Journey from an Individual Labour of Love to a Collective Labour with RightsAbstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Community Organizing of Immigrant Workers; 2.3 Industrial Context and 'Community of Coping'; 2.4 Research Methodology; 2.5 The Maternalistic and Servant Dynamics in the Domestic Worker Sector; 2.6 Redefining Employer/Employee Relationship and Fostering Labour Solidarity; 2.7 Outcomes: Organizing for Whom, and for What?; 2.8 Conclusion; References
3 Mobilizing Concealment and Spectacle Among Uruguay's Waste-PickersAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Waste Work and Precarious Labor Organizing; 3.3 The Spectacular Politics of the UCRUS; 3.4 Labor at the Landfill: Affect and Concealment; 3.5 Reconfiguring Struggle at the Aries Recycling Plant; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 Local Sweatshops in the Global Economy: Accumulation Dynamics and the Manufacturing of a Reserve Army; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Some Definitions on Sweatshops and Forced Labour; 4.3 Accumulation Dynamics and the Return of the Sweatshop
4.4 Fashion as a Problem for Workers4.5 Manufacturing a Reserve Army; 4.6 Responses to Abuses in Local Sweatshops; 4.7 Lessons from the Anti-sweatshop Movement in Buenos Aires; 4.8 Conclusions; Bibliography; 5 Labour Politics and South African Retail Workers: Enduring Collectivities in the Face of Precariousness; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Labour Politics: The Limits of the Spectacular and the Strategic; 5.3 Retail Worker Politics Constituted and Reshaped; 5.4 Wal-Mart: Collectivities and Contradictions; 5.4.1 Wal-Mart, Massmart and the Complexity of Company Terrain
5.4.2 Cambridge Food: Labour Broking, Precarious Conditions and Branch Collectives5.5 Game: Shop Stewards, Union Advances but Victimisation; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Value Production in Industries; 6 The Collective Resistance of China's Industrial Workers; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Re-emergence of Labor Markets in Post-socialist China; 6.3 Anti-privatization Protests by Chinese State Workers; 6.4 Chinese Rural Migrant Worker Resistance; 6.5 Student Interns or Cheap Workers?; 6.6 Subcontracted Workers and Work Inequalities