Contested Domains
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Contested Domains

Debates in International Labour Studies

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Contested Domains

Debates in International Labour Studies

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Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory, new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience and struggles. The dual theme of the book is the control which the state and employers seek to impose and maintain over labouring people, and the resistance put up by workers to these often new and unacceptable disciplines. With case studies – both historical and contemporary – drawn from North America, Britain and various parts of Africa, the author develops an interlocking theory of habituation and resistance. Against the background of profound changes in the global economy, Robin Cohen explores ways in which labouring people respond to the structural and managerial constrains on the development of their class consciousness and self-organisation.
This will be of interest to urban and industrial sociologists, as well as those concerned with comparative social theory and the relationship between developing world and industrialised societies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003822585
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Emigration & Immigration
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Tables and Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Foreword
  11. 1 Theorising International Labour
  12. 2 Workers in Developing Societies
  13. 3 Work, Culture and the Dialectics of Proletarian Habituation
  14. 4 The Control and Habituation of Agricultural Workers in the US
  15. 5 Peasants to Workers and Peasant-Workers in Africa
  16. 6 Resistance and Hidden Forms of Consciousness amongst African Workers
  17. 7 The Revolutionary Potential of the ‘Lumpenproletariat’: A Sceptical View from Africa
  18. 8 The ‘New’ International Division of Labour: A Conceptual, Historical and Empmcal Critique
  19. 9 Citizens, Denizens and Helots: The Politics of International Migration Flows in the Post-war World
  20. References
  21. Index