Gender and memory in the Middle East: on transgenerational transmission and agency
Published in Dialectical Anthropology
Afterword: reflections on labor politics in an age of precarity
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Precarious revolution: labour and neoliberal securitisation in Egypt
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The article draws on precarious workers’ engagement with the Egyptian revolution between 2011 and 2013. Despite their radical moves—reclaiming land previously appropriated by the state and staging various neighbourhood protests—the workers in this ethnography refused to associate with the revolution. Their curious position between radicality and di...
Publisher Correction to: Precarious revolution: labour and neoliberal securitisation in Egypt
Published in Dialectical Anthropology
This article should have appeared in the March 2019 special issue of Dialectical Anthropology titled “Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity” but was unintentionally not included in the issue.
Workers of the World!
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Understanding labour politics in an age of precarity
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The introductory essay to this collection examines the possibilities that work-based collective organisation affords for transformative politics under precarity. We begin from the premise that precarity is experienced in different ways in the Global North and South, among stable workers and in ‘informal’ work. Recent scholarship has explored the re...
Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal
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This article explores the themes of precarity and precarization by looking at specific historical conjunctures in the recent history of Portuguese capitalist development, relevant because of their enduring influence in shaping the mutual constitution of state-led projects of accumulation and development, dominant waged regimes and emergent normativ...
A collective memory in production: gender politics of 1938 in Turkey
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Beyond factory safety: labor unions, militant protest, and the accelerated ambitions of Bangladesh’s export garment indu...
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This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh’s garment industry. After a string of high-profile factory disasters—including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building—Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety. These initi...
Precarity, by comparison: the uncertain transnationalization of labor politics between Korea and the Philippines
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Shipbuilding is a remarkably mobile industry. After the center of gravity moved from Northern Europe to South Korea and Japan, of late, low–labor cost countries like China and the Philippines are increasingly cutting into the market share of more established players. Before delving into a discussion of how workers in places such as Germany, South K...
