Call for Papers for special stream at the 36th ILPC, Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018
 

Breaking boundaries and opening new struggles:
Linking class and labour process to development in the Global South
 
Organisers:
Anita Hammer, Sociology of Work, De Montfort University, UK [log in to unmask]
Adam Fishwick, International Political Economy, DMU, UK [log in to unmask]
Thomas Chambers, Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes, UK [log in to unmask]
 
The special stream invites contributions that address the diversity of work and labour process in the Global South and its implications for class and development. Recent debates have sought to emphasise the return of class and its relevance to informal and precarious work in India (Agarwala 2013), to rethinking development in Global Production Networks (Campling et al. 2016), and to issues of collective action and resistance, production-social reproduction, and labour-state relations for understanding work and development across Latin America, South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. Our core question is: how does the primacy of work and the labour process improve our understanding of development in the Global South?
 
The novelty, theoretically and methodologically, of the stream is its comparative and cross-disciplinary approach, breaking down boundaries – both geographical and disciplinary – to research on labour, work, and development across the Global South. While addressing general themes of class relations of inequality at work and in development, papers are sought that provide conceptually and empirically situated analyses of work and labour. The diversity of contexts reinforces the relevance of comparative analysis. The aim throughout the sessions will be to draw out the connections and differences across different sites and regions, at the same time advancing discussion on attempts to redefine ‘development’ around a more ‘work-oriented’ or ‘labour-centred’ approach.
 
Papers are sought on following themes, though they are not restricted to these – either conceptually or empirically – with a substantive focus on country(ies) and region(s) of Latin America, South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. We strongly encourage papers from scholars based in these regions, as well as opening the stream to researchers working in other disciplines. Early career researchers and doctoral students are particularly encouraged to submit.
 
·         Intersections of class with other social relations of caste, gender and ethnicity and implications for labour process across national and/or regional contexts
·         Interlinkages between formal and informal and precarious work and labour in the Global South and implications for regulation, institutions and collective action
·         Work and class in the context of dispossession, new regions and value chain construction in different regions/countries
·         Blurred boundaries between production and social reproduction and implications for class and resistance
·         Forms of collective action, workplace resistance, and trade union organising
·         Alternative modes of organising work and the implications for construction of a ‘labour-centred’ development
·         Comparative research methodologies or papers that address the implications of comparative and/or interdisciplinary approaches in the Global South
·         South-South and North-South differences and points of comparison in work and labour across different sites and sectors
·         Implications for development of any of the above issues relating to work and labour
 
Successful contributors will also be invited to submit papers to prepare a special issue in a journal or an edited book based on their contributions to the special stream.
 
For informal enquiries pl contact Anita Hammer at [log in to unmask]
This special stream is linked to the Labour, Work, and Development Network launched in 2016 and which brings together established as well as early career and doctoral scholars from a variety of disciplines – sociology, anthropology, international political economy and geography – conducting research on labour, work, and development across the Global South. For more details see: https://labouranddevelopment.wordpress.com/


The deadline for submissions of abstracts is 31st October 2017 via the ILPC website (www.ilpc.org.uk). Please mention the special stream title.

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