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Chasing Funds: Start-ups from a Global Value Chains Approach 追逐资金：从全球价值链角度出发的初创企业

IF 2.4

Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4504

S. Wolff

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引用次数: 2

Review of: Ruy Braga (2017) A rebeldia do precariado: trabalho e neoliberalismo no Sul global 回顾:鲁伊·布拉加(2017)《不稳定的反叛:全球南方的工作与新自由主义》

IF 2.4

Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.5026

Andréia Galvão

引用次数: 15

Precarious Workers and the Labour Process: Problematising the Core/Non-core 不稳定工人和劳动过程:核心/非核心问题

IF 2.4

Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4433

Lynford Dor, Carin Runciman

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引用次数: 0

Review of: Angry Workers of the World (2020) Class Power on Zero-Hours 评论：愤怒的世界工人（2020）零小时阶级权力

IF 2.4

Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4940

Guillaume Tremblay-Boily

引用次数: 0

Review of: Liam Cullinane (2020) Working in Cork: Everyday Life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917-2001 评论：Liam Cullinane（2020）《在科克工作：爱尔兰钢铁的日常生活》，Sunbeam Wolsey和福特码头工厂，1917-2001

IF 2.4

Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4865

M. Naughton

引用次数: 0

A New Year Brings Change to the GLJ 新的一年给GLJ带来变化