Global Rupture

Anita Hammer is Senior Lecturer in sociology of work, University of Essex, UK, and a research collaborator with the international network on Globalisation and Work, CRIMT, Canada. One of her latest publications is: The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (2020). Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. Ness is author of books and articles on labour including Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, and Migration in a World of Inequality (2023).

Notes on Contributors



Introduction
 Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness



PART 1: South-West Asia



1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey

 Safak Tartanoglu Bennett

2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism

 Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer



PART 2: Africa



3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s

 Bridget Kenny

4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors

 Ilona Steiler



PART 3: South Asia



5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour

 Amal Shahid

6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector

 Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra

7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers

 Danisha Kazi

8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka

 Shanka P. Dharmapala



PART 4: South-East Asia



9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry

 Anna Salmivaara



PART 5: Latin America



10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic

 Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri

11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina

 Lorena Poblete

12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina

 Dolores Señorans



Epilogue
 Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness



Index