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Working USA special issue

Issue Editors:

Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University, UK; m.atzeni at lboro.ac.uk

Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York City; manny.ness at gmail.com

Interpretations of global labour in the age of neoliberal capitalism
urgently demands robust and critical historical and comparative analysis.
For decades, research on labour collective organisation has focused almost
exclusively on workers collectively employed on a stable basis in
industrial settings or in the public sector, defended by collective
bargaining, represented by trade unions and inserted within relatively
stable systems of industrial relations. This view however it has always
failed to take into account the transformative potentialities of that vast,
rich and meaningful array of ‘precarious’ work experiences and relations
that allow the production and re-production of capital as a whole.

Women’s labour in the sphere of social reproduction, low-waged workers who
work outside conventional work as subcontractors in global production
chains or in the informal economy of the global cities or as crowd workers
in the digital economy, migrant workers whose exploited work often lays at
the margin of legality, new groups of dispossessed people forced into the
labour market, are categories of workers traditionally excluded and
neglected by the labour relations literature as laborers; often considered
unproductive, unregulated, and thus unrepresentable. Considering the speed
of development and intensity of integration of global capitalist processes
and the political turn to neoliberalism, which have brought about new (or
refreshed old) paradigms to increase workers’ productivity and profits,
absent has been the signal importance of these ‘invisible’, precarious
workers, today representing not just the vast majority of workers in the
global South but also increasingly shaping the social landscape of cities
across the world.

Broadening research on this underworld of precarious and not represented
workers is important to understand one fundamental dimension of the process
of capital accumulation in the global age but it also helps to address deep
theoretical concerns, put in evidence by heterodox Marxist currents across
the social sciences, originating from the use of narrow conceptions about
work and workers:

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   The conventional notion of the working class, based on the industrial,
   waged worker, has been questioned for not considering how different labour
   regimes co-exist and contribute to the development of capitalism as a
   system, especially women engaged in social reproduction.
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   The social organisation and militancy of workers it has been reduced to
   workers’ resistance to official strikes organised by representative trade
   unions, the ‘institutionalised form of resistance’, leaving aside the rich
   history and tradition of workers’ self-organisation. This remains crucial
   today in framing precarious workers organisation and in setting
   possibilities for transformative agency.
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   Geographically research concentrated on struggles at the workplace
   without considering the linkages of these with broader struggles over
   workers’ daily lives.

 In the past 30 years, one sided views of labour has been explicitly based
on the political role assigned to the industrial workers. Either from a
revolutionary or a reformist perspective this particular section of the
working class was considered central to any transformative politics. The
advent of neoliberalism has swept away many of the elements upon which this
centrality was built, leaving a *tabula rasa*, politically and
theoretically speaking. From an empirical point of view, diversity,
heterogeneity, unevenness, unpredictability characterise most workers’
struggles of the 21st century.

Against this theoretical and empirical gap in knowledge, the aim of this
special issue is twofold.

   1.

   It aims to offer insights on the daily lives, organization and
   resistance of precarious workers, intending these in broader terms, as
   employed in a range of different sectors, geographical and spatial
   landscapes, economic environments, and regulatory employment regimes.
   2.

   It aims to produce new knowledge into the connections between these
   different workers’ struggles and the specific socio-economic, historical
   and productive context in which have developed.

 Within these aims and considering the scope of the journal, we seek
submissions from any social sciences discipline concerned with the study of
workers and labour using a range of empirical and methodological analyses.
The editors however would especially welcome papers that

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   reach theoretical insights in addressing the relevance of certain groups
   of workers’ experiences or develop their arguments through
   comparative/historical analysis;
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   focus on global cities and diverse employment regimes, workplaces and
   daily lives experiences;
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   Consider the experiences of workers in strategic sectors of the economy
   (distribution, transportation, knowledge economy);
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   Search for connections of workers struggles in different locations
   across the global production chain;
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   offer insights on new forms of organizing and resistance

DUE DATE FOR ABSTRCTS OF 750-1000 WORDS: 15 September 2014

WORD LENGTH: 6000-10,000 words

DUE DATE FOR FINAL SUBMISSION: end March 2015

PUBLICATION DATE: September 2015

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