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Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance Edited by Rob Lambert Winthrop Professor, University ofWesternAustralia, Perth, Australia Andrew Herod Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA luul Edward Elgar PUBLISHING Cheltenham, UK• Northampton, MA, USA © Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957863 This book is available electronically in the IEigaronline I Social and Political Science subject collection DOI 10.4337/9781781954959 ISBN 978 1 78195 494 2 (cased) ISBN 978 1 78195 495 9 (eBook) Typeset by Columns Design XML Ltd, Reading Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors 1x 1 Neoliberalism, precarious work and remaking the geography of global capitalism 1 Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 2 The growth and organization of a precariat: working in the clothing industry in Johannesburg's inner city 43 Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster 3 Bounded mobilizations: informal unionism and secondary shaming amongst immigrant temp workers in Chicago 72 Sebastien Chauvin 4 Home-based work and new ways of organizing in the era of globalization 96 Dilek Hattatoglu and Jane Tate 5 Constructing violence and resistance: the political economy of the construction industry and labour subcontracting system in post-socialist China 125 Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin 6 Nature and insecurity in South Africa 148 Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert 7 At the cutting edge: precarious work in Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry 166 Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto V vi Neoliberal capitalism and precarious work PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 8 Organizing across a fragmented labour force: trade union responses to precarious work in Korean auto companies 201 AelimYun 9 Closures and openings: the politics of place and space in resisting corporate restructuring 226 Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert 10 Sweatshop citizenship, precariousness and organizing building cleaners 255 Luis L.M. Aguiar 11 Global unions, global framework agreements and the transnational regulation oflabour standards 277 Mark Thomas Conclusion: towards a movement of the dispossessed? 303 Rob Lambert andAndrew Herod Index 323 Figures 7.1 Location of municipalities and distilleries in Middle Paranapanema and the Pontal of Paranapanema 169 8.1 Disposition of workers on the main assembly lines at Hyundai Motors's Ulsanplant 210 8.2 Disposition of workers on the assembly line of Kia Motors's Hwasung plant 215 9.1 'Jobkiller'logo 238 vii Tables 1.1 Typology of contingent workers 6 2.1 Profile of clothing enterprises in inner-city Johannesburg 52 2.2 Union awareness and representation of non-standard workers 63 2.3 Typology of power 66 8.1 Union responses to subcontracted workers 219 viii Contributors Luis L.M. Aguiar is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ike Barber School of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He edited (with Andrew Herod) The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy (Blackwell 2006) and co-edited Researching amongst Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up (Ashgate 2012). Maria Joseli Barreto completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in Geography from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo. She contributes to the Center for Labour Geography Studies and the Research Center for Labour, Environment and Health at UNESP. Sebastien Chauvin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. His research has focused on labour, immigration and citizenship in the United States and France. In the US he adopted a participant observation research strategy focused on day labour and the undocumented migrant labour force. Jacklyn Cock is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is an honorary research professor in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP). She has written extensively on militarization, gender and environmentalism in Southern Africa. Her best-known book is Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation (Ravan Press 1981). Her latest book is The War against Ourselves: Nature, Power and Justice (Wits University Press 2007). Brian Garvey is a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde's Business School investigating work, labour organization and primary commodity production in the context of global environmental change. He is co-founder of the Work, Labour and Globalisation research group at the University of Strathclyde. Michael Gillan teaches and researches employment relations at the University of Western Australia. He has published in a wide range of ix
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