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Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:25 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [historicalmaterialism] Call for Papers: Reframing Labour and Workers’ Resistance for the 21st Century<br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a><br>
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<b>Date:</b> 11 Jul 2014 23:01:10 GMT+2<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:historicalmaterialism@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">historicalmaterialism@yahoogroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[historicalmaterialism] Call for Papers: Reframing Labour and Workers’ Resistance for the 21st Century</b><br>
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Working USA
special issue
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<p align="justify">Issue
Editors: </p>
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Maurizio
Atzeni, Loughborough University, UK; <a href="mailto:m.atzeni@lboro.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.atzeni@lboro.ac.uk</a></p>
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Immanuel
Ness, Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York City; <a href="mailto:manny.ness@gmail.com" target="_blank">manny.ness@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p align="justify">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. </p>
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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. </p>
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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:</p>
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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. </p>
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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. </p>
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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. </p>
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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 <em>tabula
rasa</em>,
politically and theoretically speaking. From an empirical point of
view, diversity, heterogeneity, unevenness, unpredictability
characterise most workers’ struggles of the 21<sup>st</sup>
century.</p>
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Against
this theoretical and empirical gap in knowledge, the aim of this
special issue is twofold. </p>
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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. </p>
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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. </p>
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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 </p>
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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;</p>
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focus on
global cities and diverse employment regimes, workplaces and daily
lives experiences; </p>
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Consider
the experiences of workers in strategic sectors of the economy
(distribution, transportation, knowledge economy); </p>
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Search for
connections of workers struggles in different locations across the
global production chain;</p>
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offer
insights on new forms of organizing and resistance</p>
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DUE DATE FOR ABSTRCTS OF 750-1000 WORDS: 15
September 2014</p>
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WORD LENGTH:
6000-10,000 words</p>
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DUE DATE FOR FINAL SUBMISSION:
end March 2015</p>
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PUBLICATION DATE:
September 2015</p>
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