New article by Ngai Pun, Yuan Shen, Yuhua Guo, Huilin Lu, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden on Chinese workers’ struggles from a global labor perspective

Ngai Pun,  Yuan Shen, Yuhua Guo, Huilin Lu, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden (2016) Apple, Foxconn, and Chinese workers’ struggles from a global labor perspective, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17(2): 166-185.

Barry Eidlin on the Lack of Labor Party in the United States

Barry Eidlin (2016) Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932 to 1948, American Sociological Review 81(3):488–516.

Jenny Chan and Olga Martin-Ortega response to Apple's 10th supplier responsibility progress report

Jenny Chan, Olga Martin-Ortega (2016) The Apple way to make products: a response to Apple’s 10th ‘supplier responsibility progress report', openDemocracy. 6 June. 

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, Mark Selden on China's New Working Class

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, Mark Selden (2016) Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class, in: R. Appelbaum, N. Lichtenstein (eds.) Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Cornell University Press.

P. Stewart, A. Mrozowicki, A. Danford and K. Murphy on Lean as Ideology and Practice

Paul Stewart, Adam Mrozowicki, Andy Danford, Ken Murphy (2016)  Lean as ideology and practice: A comparative study of the impact of lean production on working life in automotive manufacturing in the United Kingdom and Poland, Competition and Change, published online before print 31 March 2016, DOI: 10.1177/1024529416636192.

Akira Suzuki on Japanese Labour Unions and Nuclear Energy

Akira Suzuki (2016) Japanese Labour Unions and Nuclear Energy: A Historical Analysis of Their Ideologies and Worldviews, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Published online on 3 May 2016.

Peter Waterman: "Eric Lee: The Online Labour Solidarity Whiz who’s ‘Proud to be a Zionist’"

Peter Waterman (2016) Eric Lee: The Online Labour Solidarity Whiz who’s ‘Proud to be a Zionist’, Labor for Palestine (online, April 16, 2016).