Sociologias, “Digital Platform Work,” Vol. 23, No. 57, (May – Aug) 2021.
Editors
and contributors: Ludmila C. Abílio, Henrique Amorim, Rafael Grohmann
Contributors:
Jenny Chan, Cheryll R. Soriano, Earvin C. Cabalquinto, Joy H. Panaligan,
Antonio A. Casilli, Matheus Viana Braz, Sofía Scasserra, Flora Partenio.
https://seer.ufrgs.br/sociologias/issue/view/4169/showToc
Tempo Social, revista de sociologia da USP, v. 33, n. 2, May-August 2021
Dossier
– Transnational Labor Struggles and Political Repertoires
“A joint-effort made by
Portuguese and Brazilian labor researchers to reach international audience.”—Leonardo
Mello e Silva, Elísio Estanque, Hermes Augusto Costa
Presentation: political repertoires in transnational
labor struggles and new forms of global labor governance
Leonardo Mello e Silva, Elísio Estanque and Hermes
Augusto Costa
Building a regional solidarity network of
transnational activists: an African Case Study
Warren McGregor and Edward Webster
Global economic planning as a challenge for the
labour movement
Jörg Nowak
The globalization of just transition in the world of
labour: the politics of scale and scope
Dimitris Stevis
Conditionality and trade union action in the
promotion and defence of workers’ rights: the Spanish case
Fernando Elorza Guerrero and Manuel García Muñoz
The International Labor Movement as an agent of
change: temporary foreign workers and union renewal in Asia
Michele Ford
Warring brothers: constructing Komatsu’s and
Caterpillar’s globalization
Caleb Goods, Andrew Herod, Bradon Ellem and Al
Rainnie
Two forms of transnational organizing: mapping the
strategies of global union federations
Stefan Schmalz, Teresa Conrow, Dina Feller and
Maurício Rombaldi
Cross-border trade union networks in transnational
corporations: a comparison between sectors
Ricardo Framil Filho, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and
Leonardo Mello e Silva
Digital communication as a global challenge for
trade unions: lessons from Brazil and Portugal
Hermes Augusto Costa and Bia Carneiro
Labor and informal work in North-South relations: a
study on Iberian countries and Latin-America
Elísio Estanque and Víctor F. Climent
Platform workers in Latin America: transnational
logics and regional resistances?
Pablo Miguez and Nicolas Diana Menendez
Labour and globalisation: complexity and
transformation
Ronaldo Munck
ARTICLES
Culture and society in the first Critical Theory
Ricardo Musse
Memory and military dictatorship: remembering human
rights violations
Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos
The end of the old division? Public and private in
the internet age
Luis Felipe Miguel and Adriana Veloso Meireles
Women in the Social Economy: at the heart of action,
far from the decision
Alcides A. Monteiro
To “decolonize” the common: a critical essay on the
work of Dardot and Laval
Rafael Afonso da Silva
INTERVIEW
The (auto)biographical method. Interview with Jean
Peneff
By Christophe Brochier and Luciano Rodrigues Costa
REVIEW
Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro, Impressos subversivos: arte, cultura e política no Brasil 1924-1964
By Luiz Armando Bagolin
Global Labour Journal Vol. 12 No. 3 (2021): Sep 2021 (Special Issue)
FRONT
MATTER
Informal
Workers and the Politics of Working-class Transformation in the Americas
Ruth
Felder, Viviana Patroni
ARTICLES
Precarising
Formality: Understanding Current Labour Developments in Chile
Gonzalo
Durán, Karina Narbona
The
Dynamics of Labour Informality in Brazil, 2003-2019
Marcelo
Manzano, José Dari Krein, Ludmila C. Abílio
Rethinking
Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina
Maisa
Bascuas, Ruth Felder, Ana Logiudice, Viviana Patroni
Reproductive
Work, Territorial Commons and Political Precarity in Peripheral Extractive
Sites in Ecuador and Bolivia
Cristina
Cielo, Elizabeth López Canelas
The
Fragility of the Labour Corridors to Costa Rica and the United States:
Precarious Migrant Workers in Central America
Abelardo
Morales-Gamboa
GLOBAL
ISSUES
Mall
Attacks and the Everyday Crisis of the Working Class in South Africa
Trevor
Ngwane
The
Politics of Unionisation in Hong Kong: An Interview with Dr Bill Taylor
Hong
Yu Liu
BOOK
REVIEWS
Anne
Lisa Carstensen (2019) Das Dispositiv Moderne Sklavenarbeit. Umkämpfte
Arbeitsverhältnisse in Brasilien
Laurin
Blecha
Alessandra
Mezzadri (2017) The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and
Garments Made in India
Natalie
J. Langford
Benjamin
Selywn (2017) The Struggle for Development
Jenny
Chan
Intan
Suwandi (2019) Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism
Madhumita
Dutta
Adrian
Wilkinson and Michael Barry (eds.) (2020) The Future of Work and Employment
Vicente
Silva
OBITUARY
In
Memoriam: Aziz Choudry (1966-2021)
Evelyn
Encalada Grez, Katherine Nastovski
Nowak, Jörg. 2021. “Towards an Integral Theory of Workers’ Power: Workers in Logistics and the 2018 Truckers Strike in Brazil.” Global Labour Column, 21 September.
Recently, there has been considerable debate about the potential power of workers in logistics and their access to choke points that can slow down or halt the flow of goods. An investigation of the 2018 truckers’ strike in Brazil is a good case to test this hypothesis since about 400 000 truckers erected 700 blockades for 11 days, according to numbers provided by Brazilian police. The economic damage is considered to have been enormous for the national economy, since not only did many shops and pharmacies run out of food and medical drugs, but also many animals used for food production had to be culled due to the lack of animal feed.
In spite of the apparent success in blocking the flow of goods, the Brazilian truckers only gained short-lived relief in the form of lower diesel prices. The measure ran out after six months, and minimum freight prices imposed by the government, a kind of minimum wage for truckers, were never implemented. In other words, the enormous amount of power of Brazilian truckers to block the flow of goods – their structural workplace power – did not translate into political power to ameliorate their conditions.
This raises the question about the necessary intermediate strategies needed in order to transform the power to block production or road traffic, and what exactly impeded the Brazilian truckers from succeeding in this transformation.
FULL TEXT: https://globallabourcolumn.org/2021/09/21/towards-an-integral-theory-of-workers-power-workers-in-logistics-and-the-2018-truckers-strike-in-brazil/