by Marion Werner, University at Buffalo, SUNY Ben Selwyn, Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. ISBN...
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Review essay – “Recuperating Commodity Studies for a Marxist Political Economy: Possibilities and Limitations”
Intervention – Towards a Multi-dimensional Concept of Forced Labour
by Siobhan McGrath, Lancaster University The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently updated its estimate of the number of people worldwide in forced labour. The new estimate is...
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Sewers and Sewerage Workers in India
by Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota In her much-publicized address to the joint session of the parliament the President of India, Pratibha Patil, recently declared her government’s intention to...
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Virtual issue – 'Boys Town Redux: a supplement'
Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space recently published a virtual issue entitled ‘Boys town redux’. The title comes from a Society and Space essay published in...
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The message
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Not too long ago, a forwarded message arrived in my inbox. Simply titled ‘2012’, it was addressed to dozens of other people, and I could see...
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Yo: are we (still) racist?
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley When I teach classes about race and geography, I often use the civil rights movement to start a conversation about the ways in which racial politics and spatial...
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Cops and the 99%, Part II: Cops, scabs, and the 99%
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York As promised, here’s my follow-up, a somewhat more opinionated take on the relationship between cops and the 99%. Scabs are paid to break a strike,...
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Police, protest, and spaces of power
by Rachel Brahinsky, University of California Berkeley In this season of global occupations, the geographies of police violence have been on my mind. As we begin to unveil this new blog, I plan on...
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Building a new labor movement in the shell of the old…: The IWW campaigns to organize fast food workers
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day's wage for a fair day's work’,...
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