Andreas Bieler, Jamie Jordan and Adam David Morton (2019) "EU Aggregate Demand as a Way out of Crisis?" (Journal of Common Market Studies)

Bieler, Andreas, Jamie Jordan and Adam David Morton. 2019. “EU Aggregate Demand as a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique.” Journal of Common Market Studies. First Published: 30 January 2019. 

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EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post‐Keynesian Critique

Andreas Bieler 

 

Jamie Jordan 

 

Adam David Morton

First published: 30 January 2019

 

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12843

Abstract

Post‐Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively the macroeconomic imbalances between core and peripheral spaces across the region. Through a critical engagement with such descriptions, this article argues that to account more adequately for the formation of the asymmetrical and crisis‐ridden forms of development across the Eurozone it is necessary to focus on the uneven and combined development of Europe's peripheral spaces and their integration into an expanded free trade regime since the 1980s. It is through a focus on the structuring condition of uneven and combined development shaped by capitalist social relations of production and attendant class struggles that we can locate the origins of the present crisis.

Keywords

• class struggle
 
• Eurozone crisis
• Greece
 
• Portugal
• uneven and combined development

Jenny Chan, Manjusha Nair and Chris Rhomberg (2019) "Precarization and Labor Resistance" (Critical Sociology)

Chan, Jenny, Manjusha Nair and Chris Rhomberg. 2019. “Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China.” Critical Sociology. First Published: 18 March.

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Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain of struggle at the workplace and in the wider community. They argue that against all odds protesting workers have repeatedly exercised some power to influence employer and government policies.

Keywords community organizing, gender, law, migrant labor, precarization, the state, unionization

Jenny Chan (2019) Challenges of Dispatch Work in China (AsiaGlobal Online)

Chan, Jenny. 2019. “Challenges of Dispatch Work in China.” AsiaGlobal Online. First Published: 21 March.

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Challenges of Dispatch Work in China

As China embraces the digital economy, subcontracting—the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through agencies or other multilayered contracting—is raising new challenges over legal protections and corporate responsibility, as well as labor unrest.

Jenny Chan is an assistant professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a recipient of Early Career Scheme funding (2018-2020) awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (ref. 25602517). Prior to joining the university, she was a lecturer of sociology and contemporary China studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a junior research fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She is the vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). “Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers” is her first coauthored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai.

Jenny Chan (2019) State and Labor in China, 1978-2018 (Journal of Labor and Society)

Chan, Jenny. 2019. “State and Labor in China, 1978-2018.” Journal of Labor and Society. First Published: 21 March.

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State and labor in China, 1978–2018

Jenny Chan

First published: 21 March 2019

 

https://doi.org/10.1111/wusa.12408

Funding information: Early Career Scheme of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2018‐2020), Grant/Award Number: RGC/Gov No.: PolyU256025/17H

Abstract

China's reintegration into global capitalism has greatly transformed migration patterns and labor relations since the late 1970s. This article focuses on worker activism in this transformation. It shows that the dynamic interactions between worker mobilization and government reaction have continued to shape the forms and outcomes of labor contention. Aggrieved workers have used legal and extralegal strategies to defend their rights and interests. In response, from the early 2000s, the leadership has sought to preserve social stability by raising minimum wages, extending social insurance coverage, and expanding access to grievance redress. But freedom of association remains severely restricted. Labor nongovernmental organizations and more recently a new generation of left‐wing university students have attempted to fill the representation gap to support workers in struggle. State and labor relations remain contentious in Chinese development.

Biography

• Jenny Chan is an assistant professor of sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a vice president of The International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018–2022). Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China's Workers is her first coauthored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (available in multiple languages).