Labour Questions in the Global South

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Labour Questions in the South: Back to the Drawing Board, Yet Again

Chapter 3 The Concept of ‘Working People’

Chapter 4 The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour

Chapter 5 Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying ‘Value Capture’ from the South

Chapter 6 From ‘Relative Surplus Population’ and ‘Dual Labour Markets’ to ‘Informal’ and ‘Formal’ Employment and Enterprises: Insights About Causation and Consequences

Chapter 7 Whither African Trade Union Movement? Lessons for Restitution and Reform

Chapter 8 From ‘Labour Dividend’ to ‘Robot Dividend’: Technological Change and Workers’ Power in South China

Chapter 9 Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008–2016)

Chapter 10 Primitive Accumulation and Exploitative Labour Relations in Zimbabwe’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Sector: The Case of Mhondoro Ngezi

Chapter 11 Informal Economy in India: Persistence and Meagreness

Chapter 12 Whatever Happened to Employment: India’s Recent Record from a Nationally Representative Sample

Chapter 13 Rural Labour Unionism in Brazil: The Transformations of the National Confederation of Farm Workers (CONTAG)

Chapter 14 Re-peasantization, Resistance and Subordination: The Struggle for Land and Agrarian Reform in Brazil

Chapter 15 Peasants of Manipur: Agrarian Change, Land Tenure and Emerging Patterns of Re-peasantization in India

Chapter 16 Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe’s New Agrarian Structure

Chapter 17 Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China

Chapter 18 Insurgent Working Class Self-Organization Outside the Wage Labour Relation: Land and Livestock in the City

Chapter 19 Changing Labour Relations in Commercial Agrarian Landscapes in Ghana

Chapter 20 Adivasi Women, Agrarian Change and Forms of Labour in Neo-liberal India