| 1. Structural Changes and Impacts on Labour
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| 1.1. New/Digital Economies
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| The false promises of digitalisation
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Birgit Mahnkopf
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| The Devaluation of Work through Digitization
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Martina Sproll
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| UBER: deregulation and silent privatization
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João Gabriel Buonavita
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| The “New Economy” challenge: Lessons from Germany and France
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Ravi Tripathi
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| 1.2. Climate Change, agriculture and natural resources
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| The Role of Trade Unions in protecting Agricultural Employment in Ghana in the Phase of Climate Change
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Hans Awude
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| Forest Carbon Supply Chains and the International Division of Labour
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Archana Prasad
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| Rural Business, Informalisation and Precarious Outcomes in Plantation Economy
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Debdulal Saha
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| Reflexiones sobre el trabajo y la salud laboral en la producción de aceite de palma en Colombia
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Óscar Gallo, Dan Hawkins
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| 1.3. Global Value chains, MNC and Labour Regimes
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| The Impact of Global Value Chain Consolidation and Capital Markets on Labor Conditions and Workers' Rights in Less Developed Countries
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Mark Anner
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| Smart mobile phones in Brazil: Industrial Policy and Labour Governance
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Uma Amara Rani
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| Tecnologia e gestão do trabalho no Walmart Brasil
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Patrícia Rocha Lemos
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| 1.4. Working conditions, subcontracting and precarization
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| Development of Electricity Generation and Precarious Labour
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Naaman Kipumbu
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| MERCOSUL-European Union Negotiations: Working Class´ perspectives
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Vinícius Sartorato
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| Terceirização no setor de limpeza: precarização e desigualdades intra-setoriais
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Igor Figueiredo
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| Now or never: the future of organised labour in Zambia’s mining sector
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James Musonda
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| 2. Trade Union Organization and Strategies
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| 2.1. New strategies and organizing
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| Worker-led attempt to build trade unions in China
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Elaine Sio-ieng HUI
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| Fragmentation in the Central European automotive industry
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Tamás Gerocs
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| Juventude trabalhadora e os desafios da representação sindical: breves reflexões sobre os casos dos Comerciários e Telefônicos do Rio de Janeiro
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Natália Cindra
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| Are the unions prepared to face the future of work?
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Kjeld Jakobsen
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| 2.2. Trade Unions and Political Strategies
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| Teachers Unions, Political Strategy, and Educational Change in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.
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Rebecca Tarlau
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| The Crisis of National Liberation Nationalism in South Africa: The Response of the National Union of Metal Workers (NUMSA) and the Role of Worker Education
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Vishwas Satgar, Michelle Williams
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| A Comparison of South Africa and Brazil – COSATU and the ANC; CUT and the PT
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Dale Forbes, Marcelo Schmidt
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| 2.3. Trade Unions and Power Resources
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| Trade Union Revitalization in Kenya: Acquisition and Utilization of Power Resources
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Jacob Omolo
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| Trade Unions in Transformation. An Assessment of Numsa’s Attempt to Develop Political and Organizational Independence 2012 - 2018
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Miriam Di Paola
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| Is the game rigged? A critical appraisal of the power resource approach
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Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Dias, Webster
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| 2.4. Global challenges and international campaigns
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| The Challenges of Trade Unions in the Digital Economy: a case study of quick delivery service in Korea
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Kyungran Kim
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| Migrant workers and the future of trade unions in South Africa: The Case of SADSAWU
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Janet Munakamwe
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| How do the nigerian transport union responds to Uber technologies
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Muttaqa Yushau
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| Building Hotel Workers´ Power through Transnational Organizing and Campaigning: A Case Study from Brazil and the USA
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Jana Silverman
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| 3. Labour Regulation
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| 3.1 Labour Law Reforms (I)
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| Collective Bargaining and Judicial Resolution Mechanism in Brazil
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Cheng Li
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| Trade Union Reform: Towards a Better and More Effective Union System with Chinese Characteristics ? A case Study of the 2016 Shanghai Reform of Mass Organizations
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Qiao Jian
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| The impact of labour law reform on the practice of trade unionism in contemporary Nigeria
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Martin Luther
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| 3.2 Labour Law Reforms (II)
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| Reforma laboral no Brasil e seus possíveis impactos econômicos à luz das precedentes experiências internacionais
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Marcelo Manzano
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| The labor reform approved in Brazil: a regressive attack on social rights and the public institutions that operate in the labor world
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Magda Biavaschi, Marilane Teixeira
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| A reforma trabalhista do governo Temer e o pensamento neoliberal
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Guilherme Caldas
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| La ofensiva del capital contra el trabajo en el plano jurídico: el año de las reformas laborales en Argentina y Brasil
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Luis Campos
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| 3.3. Regulation, working conditions and working time (I)
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| “So easy and so difficult: labour regulation on the so-called new forms of work”
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Vitor Filgueiras
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| Inequality in working time: An international trend
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Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, Lygia Sabbag
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| Impact of Labour Regulations on Employment Conditions in Indian Manufacturing
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Anamitra Roychowdhury
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| 3.4. Regulation, working conditions and working time (II)
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| Paid Domestic Workers in Brazil – an analysis of the political and cultural conjunctures of labor rights
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Thays Almeida, Marlene Seiffarth
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| Formalization of Domestic work in Kenya: A focus on Protection of Human Rights
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Monicah Gachuki
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| Labour analogous to slavery: combat strategies and socioeconomic development in Brazil
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Marileide Silva, Carolina Prates
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| Labour rights and universal basic income: challenges to social protection for maternity and early childhood in Brazil
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Nathalie Reis Itaboraí
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| 4. Development
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| 4.1. International Division of Labour and unequal exchanges
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| The core-periphery dichotomy revisited: the Chinese trade specialization pattern with Latin American and African economies
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Roberto Borghi
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| Unequal exchanges, labor mobility from Eastern Europe and the radicalization of demographic nationalisms in Eastern Europe
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Melegh Attila
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| Hierarquia monetária e divisão internacional do trabalho
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Bruno de Conti
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| 4.2. Labour Markets
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| Impactos da recessão no mercado de trabalho da região Nordeste do Brasil
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Paulo Baltar, Eugênia Leone
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| The Influences of Segregation and the Neoliberalism in the New Post-Apartheid Labor Market
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Naomi Generoso Faustino
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| The Tripartite Labour Supply Model as Diversifier the Cognitive Rationale of Dichotomies in Theories of Economy
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Ezgi Bagdadioglu, Cheng Li
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| Labor Market Challenges for Late Industrializing Countries
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Christoph Scherrer
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| 4.3. Informality, Wages and gender gap
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| The effects of the Brazilian recession on wage inequality between men and women
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Carolina Baltar
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| Upheavals in infringing the formal-informal divide: Engaging gender in the Labour politics of Kerala,India
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Sonia George
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| Ecommerce agenda, future of labor and the gender gap
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Sofia Scasserra
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| The politics of transforming the apartheid wage structure in South Africa: the case of the national minimum wage
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Neil Coleman
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| 4.4. Social structures and migrations
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| A class that no one dares to call by its name: class conflicts and the “new middle class” in Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff’s Brazil (2003-2016)
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André Martins
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| Divisão internacional do trabalho e imigração no Brasil contemporâneo
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Patricia Villen
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| Building Livelihoods Opportunities for Syrian Refugees in Turkey
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Bilge Coban
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