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Formal Organising in the Informal Sector: The Hawker Sangram Committee and the Politics of Hawking in Kolkata, India 非正式部门的正式组织:印度加尔各答的小贩桑格拉姆委员会和霍金政治

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4412

Koyel Lahiri

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Working-class Commuters and Innovative Use of Associational Power: The Case of Mamelodi Train Sector in South Africa 工人阶级通勤者与联合动力的创新利用——以南非马梅洛迪火车行业为例

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4346

M. Mmadi

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Structuring Workers' Bargaining Power in Mexico's Strawberry Fields 构建墨西哥草莓地工人的议价能力

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4456

Matthew Fischer-Daly

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Review of: Stephanie Barrientos (2020) Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? 斯蒂芬妮·巴里恩托斯(2020)全球价值链中的性别与工作:获取收益?

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v13i1.4866

Salil R. Sapre

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The Fragility of the Labour Corridors to Costa Rica and the United States: Precarious Migrant Workers in Central America 通往哥斯达黎加和美国的劳工通道的脆弱性:中美洲不稳定的移徙工人

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4444

Abelardo Morales-Gamboa

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Intan Suwandi (2019) Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism 英坦·苏万迪(2019):价值链:新经济帝国主义

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4925

Madhumita Dutta

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Rethinking Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina 重新思考工人阶级政治：组织阿根廷的非正规工人

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4473

M. Bascuas, Ruth Felder, Ana Logiúdice, V. Patroni

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Reproductive Work, Territorial Commons and Political Precarity in Peripheral Extractive Sites in Ecuador and Bolivia 厄瓜多尔和玻利维亚周边开采地的生殖工作、领土共享和政治不稳定

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4376

Cristina Cielo, Elizabeth López Canelas

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Mall Attacks and the Everyday Crisis of the Working Class in South Africa 商场袭击与南非工人阶级的日常危机

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4935

Trevor Ngwane

引用次数: 5

Adrian Wilkinson and Michael Barry (eds.) (2020) The Future of Work and Employment 阿德里安·威尔金森和迈克尔·巴里(编)(2020)工作和就业的未来

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Global Labour Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.15173/glj.v12i3.4873

V. Silva

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