Labour Regimes and Work Processes in the Global South in the Context of a Multipolar World (Part I)
Language: English
This panel aims to gather papers that can address the relations existing between changes in the geopolitical and production matrix of capitalism and their impact on labour regimes and work processes in Global South countries.
Work relations, labour processes and class formation are continuously reconfigured and reformulated within the global political economy of capitalism. Geopolitical changes (the emergence of BRICS and China’s companies presence in many developing countries) and changes to the productive matrix of capitalism due to environmental pressures poses the question of how these are going to impact on national and/or regional productive clusters and systems of labour exploitation. How do systems of industrial relations adapt? Are we going towards models of formalised precarisation or full scale neo-colonial exploitation? How does the exploitation of the invisible labour of women, migrants, informal and precarious workers, that create value within these chains, fit into these changes? In a context of heightened resources extraction, which position do labour organisations take in environmentally related conflicts? How can working class organization and struggle connect with the territory and ecological issues?
In view of this, we particularly welcome papers, from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and comparative, that can address the interlinkages existing between the emergence of new economic power blocks, the environmental led changes in the production matrix and the processes of change in labour processes, regimes of exploitation, systems of regulation and working class action and resistance.