Global Rupture

Anita Hammer is Senior Lecturer in sociology of work, University of Essex, UK, and a research collaborator with the international network on Globalisation and Work, CRIMT, Canada. One of her latest publications is: The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (2020).Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. Ness is author of books and articles on labour including Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, and Migration in a World of Inequality (2023).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionAnita Hammer and Immanuel NessPART 1: South-West Asia1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in TurkeySafak Tartanoglu Bennett2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi CapitalismAyman Adham and Anita HammerPART 2: Africa3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980sBridget Kenny4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian SectorsIlona SteilerPART 3: South Asia5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine LabourAmal Shahid6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive SectorTulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account WorkersDanisha Kazi8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri LankaShanka P. DharmapalaPART 4: South-East Asia9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment IndustryAnna SalmivaaraPART 5: Latin America10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 PandemicRodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in ArgentinaLorena Poblete12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDolores SeñoransEpilogueAnita Hammer and Immanuel NessIndex