Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South

Global Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed rich case studies from the world outside of North America, Europe, and Australasia. Each contribution converges on the enduring and expanding significance of informal and precarious work within the Global South―the most significant factor in preventing a worldwide decent work agenda.

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Anita Hammer is Senior Lecturer in sociology of work, University of Essex, UK, and a research collaborator with the international network on Globalisation and Work, CRIMT, Canada. One of her latest publications is: The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (2020).

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. Ness is author of books and articles on labour including Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, and Migration in a World of Inequality (2023).