"This volume is one of the first books to consider the impact of tripartism across the developing world. It covers 8 case studies from Afrcia, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, focusing on developments since the 1990s. These studies show that tripartism has the effect of reducing the...

Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors vii -- List of Figures x -- List of Tables xi -- List of Abbreviations xii -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Politics of Labor in Late-industrializing and Post-socialist -- Economies: New Challenges in a Global Age 1 -- Christopher Candland and Rudra...

Adopting a largely institutional theoretical perspective, this chapter focuses on emerging and developing economies in Africa and Asia, including labor−management relations in South Africa and other jurisdictions in both Africa and Asia. The aim is to assess the effects of changes in the labor...

Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South -- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South -- Chapter 2: The Concept of ‘Working People’ -- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour -- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying...