In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic devel…
The rise of the coca unions -- The lowest rung of the cocaine trade -- Self-governing in the Chapare -- From class to ethnicity -- Community coca control -- The unions and local government -- The coca union's radio station.
"In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales--leader of the MAS--became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca gr…
With the exception of chapters 5, 17, and 20 this book consists of previously published articles of [the author's]. Includes bibliographical references.
Trade unions of the world
Trade unions of the world
"Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance explores an understudied, but central, area within contemporary studies of globalisation and precarisation. It relates to the interface between migration, global governance and the role of civil society, with particular focus on the dil…
For too long the movement of labour and the labour movement have been studied in splendid isolation. This volume addresses their intersection. Karl Polanyi's intuition that history moves through a double movement of disembedding under market rule followed by re-embedding under s…
Umschlag -- Titel -- Inhalt -- Frank Bajohr / Anselm Doering-Manteuffel /Claudia Kemper / Detlef Siegfried: Einleitung -- Ein Ausgangspunkt -- Axel Schildt: Fünf Möglichkeiten, die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik zu erzählen -- Kollektive Sozialisationen -- Michael Wildt: Die Bund…
