Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231178772
Nantina Vgontzas
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Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231180475
Cedric de Leon
In this review of Revaluing Work(res), I argue that the labor studies approach must move forward in two directions. First, it must anchor the conversation on the future of work in the concept of “creative destruction” and in doing so advocate a socialist alternative to organizing production. Second, it must highlight the specific legacy of Black labor in the afterlife of slavery in the forms of labor control that characterize new forms of work.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1177/0160449x231186185
J. Metzgar
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Pub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1177/0160449x231186184
John Lepley
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1177/0160449x231187115
Bruce Nissen
University- and college-based labor education programs historically have had a precarious existence. In the early and mid-twentieth century, suspicion by American Federation of Labor leaders and indifference from higher education institutions were the main threats to health and stability. By the 1980s, these dangers lessened considerably, but new menaces emerged. This article relates a personal history wherein the author experienced a series of assaults on his university-based labor education program with the author frequently being at the center of the controversy. The case is analyzed in the context of corporatization of the university and political and labor-related trends.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231180375
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Todd E. Vachon
What can labor studies contribute to ongoing debates about the future of work? In a recent edited volume, Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future (Schulze-Cleven and Vachon 2021), we put forward a set of propositions that have sparked lively discussions at academic conferences over the past two years. This essay introduces a symposium on "Labor Studies and the Future of Work" that extends these earlier conversations and makes them accessible to the labor studies community. The article clarifies the main arguments and the broader agenda of the book before briefly addressing selected reactions to our claims. Finally, it summarizes the contributions to the symposium by a diverse group of scholars, reviewing what they have to say on the nature and purpose of labor studies as well as its promise for debates about the future of work and workers.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231178779
Jason Jackson, A. Meer
This article argues that a global approach to labor studies that takes equal account of labor's Fordist-Keynesian as well as its colonial and anti-colonial histories in the Global North and South would make an important contribution to emerging discourses and debates on the future of work. It contrasts the evolution of workers and work in both developing and advanced industrial economies from the inter-war period onwards, highlighting ways in which political struggles and legal transformations produced distinct labor institutions: ‘good’ union protected jobs for some in the Global North and pervasive informality for most in the Global South. Yet despite these different starting points, the article argues that the emergence of new technologies of production such as artificial intelligence and advanced automation amidst the broader context of neoliberalism is prompting convergence rather than divergence in the trajectories of workers in the developing and industrialized worlds, as mostly clearly seen in the rising casualization of work. The article thus suggests that a truly global approach to labor studies that takes account of the historical and institutional trajectories of work in different contexts would strengthen both the analytic foundations and normative commitments of the discipline as scholars address the anxieties and concerns associated with the future of work.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231180389
B. Bussel
With its rich history of supporting the advancement of the working class and the union movement, labor education has continued to evolve and change, influenced by social conditions, the needs of workers and unions, and the attitudes of the institutions in which it is anchored. This essay assesses the arguments about labor education offered by Victor Devinatz and Robert Bruno and considers how the field of labor education should respond to the challenges and opportunities offered by the “time of COVID.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231178782
Marissa Brookes
This essay makes a case for integrating an international political economy (IPE) perspective into the field of labor studies to improve current theories of labor politics. I argue that viewing labor studies through an IPE lens means taking real structural barriers to collective action into account while also analyzing how labor is empowered, not just despite macroeconomic constraints, but also sometimes, paradoxically, by such constraints. I further argue that a combined IPE/labor studies approach offers insight into labor's potential for collective action, especially when one considers the politics of international trade and finance from a historical perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/0160449X231180476
Virginia Doellgast
School at Cornell University and a Senior Research Fellow at the WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, precarity, and democracy at work. She is co-editor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage, 2021) and Reconstructing Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2018); and author of Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Disintegrating Democracy at Work (Cornell University Press, 2012).
康奈尔大学商学院和WSI Hans Böckler基金会高级研究员。她的研究重点是劳动力市场和工会的比较政治经济、不稳定和工作中的民主。她是《国际与比较就业关系》（Sage，2021）和《重建团结》（牛津大学出版社，2018）的联合编辑；著有《退出、声音与团结》（牛津大学出版社，2022年）和《瓦解工作中的民主》（康奈尔大学出版社，2012年）。
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