Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour <p style="font-size: 1.2em;" align="justify">The <em>Global Labour Journal</em> is an open-access, fully peer-reviewed online journal launched in January 2010. It is the official journal of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labour Movements (<a href="http://www.rc44labour.org/">RC44</a>) and is supported by the Center for Global Workers' Rights (<a href="https://la.psu.edu/ler/center-for-global-workers2019-rights#:~:text=The%20Center%20for%20Global%20Workers%27%20Rights%20focuses%20on,student%20projects%20on%20workers%27%20rights%2C%20among%20other%20things.">CGWR</a>) at Penn State University in State College, USA, and the Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care (<a href="https://www.supsi.ch/home_en/supsi/organizzazione/dipartimenti-scuole/deass">DEASS</a>) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) in Manno, Switzerland. It is co-hosted by the Global labour University (<a href="https://global-labour-university.org/">GLU</a>) and the Society, Work and Politics Institute (<a href="https://www.swop.org.za/">SWOP</a>) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.</p> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;" align="justify">The Journal serves as a forum to capture the plentiful and diverse scholarly work emerging on labour activities worldwide. It seeks to explore the role of globalisation in breaking down boundaries between the global/local and the public/private as they relate to labour activities.</p> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;" align="justify">Our aim is to provide a global forum for scholarly work on a comparative sociology of labour movements. Thus our intention is to understand, record and promote the transition of the labour movement into a new form of global unionism, and to highlight how labour activities are increasingly shaped by global forces.</p> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;" align="justify">Manuscripts may be <a title="Submissions" href="https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submitted</a> via this website. Should you have any questions about the suitability of your manuscript for consideration in the Global Labour Journal, or any difficulty in submitting online, please do not hesitate to contact the <a title="GLJ Managing Editor" href="mailto:globallabour@mcmaster.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLJ Managing Editor</a>.</p> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;" align="justify">ISSN 1918-6711</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p style="font-size: 1.6em;"><strong><a href="https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/issue/current">CURRENT ISSUE: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)</a></strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;"><strong> </strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>EDITORIAL TEAM</strong></span></p> <table width="690" cellpadding="16"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%;"> <p><strong>Editors</strong></p> <p>Maurizio Atzeni Universidad Alberto Hurtado, and CEIL-CONICET<br />Chile and Argentina</p> <p>Elena Baglioni Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom</p> <p>Teri Caraway University of Minnesota United States</p> <p>Neethi P.<br />Indian Institute for Human Settlements<br />India</p> <p>Nicolas Pons-Vignon University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Switzerland</p> <p>Ben Scully<br />University of the Witwatersrand<br />South Africa</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%;"> <p><strong>Managing Editor</strong></p> <p>c/o Claire Ceruti<br />University of the Witwatersrand<br />South Africa</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%;"> <p><strong>Reviews Editor</strong></p> <p>Omar Manky Bonilla<br />Universidad del Pacífico, Peru</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Consulting Editor</strong></p> <p>Robert O'Brien<br />McMaster University<br />Canada</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> en-US <div style="text-align: justify;"><p><em>Global Labour Journal's</em> authors grant the journal permission to publish, but they retain copyright of their manuscripts. 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The author's moral rights are retained in this license.</p><p> </p></div> globallabour@mcmaster.ca (Claire Ceruti) globallabour@mcmaster.ca (Managing Editor) Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Hardship in Nigeria: Popular Resistance and State Repression https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5965 Baba Aye Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5965 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kenya’s Protests Herald a New Age of Anti-Austerity Youth Politics https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5966 Monicah Gachuki Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5966 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Beyond the Fields: Solidarity Narratives and Coalition Building in the Fair Food Movement https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5720 <p class="Body1"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper extends scholarship on emerging sources of worker power in the 21<sup>st</sup> century through an examination of the solidarity activism of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an agricultural worker-led human rights organisation that advocates for Fair Food policies. The successes of the CIW are unexpected, since Florida’s migrant workers lack the traditional sources of worker power that bolstered the labour struggles of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Through in-depth interviews and a survey of student-farmworker activists, we extend scholarship rooted in the power resources approach to analyse the societal forms of power – both discursive and coalitional – that the CIW has developed in their efforts to harness broad social support from actors beyond the fields. We demonstrate how CIW coalitions are sustained through solidarity narratives that clarify the stakes for student allies and the discursive frames that motivate their activism.</span></p> Phillip A. Hough, Lucas López, Vanessa de Becze, Karthik Ramanujam, Charles Burggraff Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5720 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Double Precarisation of Labour and Social Reproduction: Zambian Mineworkers’ Experience of Electricity Pricing https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5639 <p class="Body1"><span lang="EN-GB">This article explores how increases in electricity tariffs for mining companies and domestic consumers affect the lives of Zambian mineworkers. It shows that, on the one hand, mining companies retrench workers, citing falling rates of profit, in a context in which unions are weak and workers have limited recourse, meaning loss of employment and uncertainty. On the other hand, given their low wages, the withdrawal of company social benefits, wage inflation and high indebtedness, increasing tariffs undermine mineworkers’ ability to meet their cost of living. In addition, it leads to conflicts about the efficient use of electricity at household level, increasing use of dirty fuels and vulnerability to criminality. This article argues that, for mineworkers, electricity tariff increases lead to a double precarisation – of labour and reproduction. The article draws on ethnographic field research conducted between 2015 and 2023 in two mining communities and two underground mine sites on the Zambian Copperbelt. </span></p> James Musonda Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5639 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Can Social Dialogue be Transformational in a Socially Polarised Brazil? Labour Relations under the Third Lula Administration https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5818 <p class="Body1"><span lang="EN-GB">Faced with a heterogeneous governing coalition and an unstable geopolitical scenario, the new Lula government is confronting many challenges to successfully enacting the social, economic and political reforms it promised during the 2022 presidential campaign. On the labour front, the current government has already made strides in rolling back some of the most regressive policies implemented during the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations that negated the possibility of real minimum wage increases and hobbled labour inspectors combatting modern-day slave labour. However, due to conflicting class interests, it will be more difficult to revoke key elements of the regressive 2017 labour law reform, which introduced new forms of precarious contracting, restricted access to the labour justice system, and curtailed union financing. This article will present a balance to date of the tripartite efforts to build and enact a pro-worker labour relations reform. We argue that the employers’ group’s path-dependent expectations to maintain many aspects of the previous labour law reform, together with labour’s diffuse support in the legislative branch, makes a more thorough-going reform that is advantageous for workers less likely to be implemented in the current conjuncture.</span></p> Jana Silverman, Stanley Gacek Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5818 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review of Gerry Rodgers, Roberto Véras de Oliviera and Janine Rodgers (2023) Unequal Development and Labour in Brazil. https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5593 Stephen Pursey Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5593 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review of Marcel van der Linden and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (editors) (2023) Power at Work – A Global Perspective on Control and Resistance. https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5924 Thomas Klikauer Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5924 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review of Pablo Pérez Ahumada (2023) Building Power to Shape Labor Policy. https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5822 Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco Copyright (c) 2024 Global Labour Journal https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5822 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000