The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the relevance of social reproduction as a key
analytical lens to interrogate contemporary capitalist processes. Building on insights from …

The past two decades have seen a dramatic upsurge in sustained, cross-border labour
activism, or labour transnationalism. Scattered across multiple disciplines and subfields, a …

The traditional industrial relations approach–focused on the state, employers and unions as
main actors–faces severe limits in its capacity to analyse labour conflict in the face of the …

Since the early 1970s, globalisation has drastically changed the landscape of international
political economy. Its definition is heavily discussed, but generally the increasing …

2 Introduction phenomenon given that they are–Palan's contribution excepted–only weakly
connected to the economic crisis that so few in IPE anticipated. As such, the timing–in terms …

In April 2008, after the stabbing of one of their fellow workers, taxi drivers in the Australian
city of Melbourne, many of them from India, blockaded the city. They chanted, removed their …

China became the world's largest market for industrial robots in 2013. The robotic revolution
gained pace and occurred after the 2008 financial crisis as many export-oriented firms …

Globalization has implied the transfer of industrial work to countries of the Global South,
where labour rights are seldom effectively protected by legal frameworks. New forms of …

In recent years, the production of a gendered and racialised underclass of non-citizen
domestic workers has come to play an increasingly important role in meeting the socially …

The past decade has witnessed a rise in political unrest among temporary migrant workers
in Asia and the Gulf. Existing perspectives on migrant labour politics—state-centred …