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Book Review: Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No Pay Britain by Tracy...

How do people get by in times and in places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? This book examines […]

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Book Review: Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organising by Melanie...

In Union Voices, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labour unions fared in the political and institutional context created by New Labour. […]

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Book Review: Socialist Register: The Question of Strategy edited by Leo...

How have the occupations of public squares around the world changed the political scene? And what are the most useful […]

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Book Review: Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices by...

In this book the authors attempt to provide an account of how trade unionism has evolved in ten west European […]

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Book Review: Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress by Steve...

This book brings together recent essays and reporting by labour journalist Steve Early. The author aims to illuminate the challenges […]

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Book Review: The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job...

Job security regulation is often the focus of passionate debates among scholars, policy-makers and the general public at large. In […]

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Book Review: Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers...

How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, and the fashion industry organise to become influential political subjects? Media Practices and Protest Politics reveals the process by...

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Book Review: Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No Pay Britain by Tracy...

How do people get by in times and in places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? This book examines the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour...

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Book Review: Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organising by Melanie...

In Union Voices, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labour unions fared in the political and institutional context created by New Labour. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie...

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Book Review: Socialist Register: The Question of Strategy edited by Leo...

How have the occupations of public squares around the world changed the political scene? And what are the most useful forms of political organization in the new conjuncture? The Question of Strategy...

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Book Review: Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices by...

In this book the authors attempt to provide an account of how trade unionism has evolved in ten west European countries, the main recent challenges that unions have faced, and their responses.  This...

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Book Review: Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress by Steve...

This book brings together recent essays and reporting by labour journalist Steve Early. The author aims to illuminate the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratise their...

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Book Review: The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job...

Job security regulation is often the focus of passionate debates among scholars, policy-makers and the general public at large. In this book Patrick Emmenegger offers a comparative account of the...

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Book Review: Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women...

In Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet, Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson offer an in-depth examination of two strikes – the Grunwick...

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Book Review: Transformations of Trade Unionism: Comparative and Transnational...

In Transformations of Trade Unionism: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries, available to download here...

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Book Review: Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health...

In Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers, editors Maya John and Christa Wichterich bring together a collection of essays exploring the extraction and undervaluation of...

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