Trade Unions and Politics in Ceylon

Trade Unions and Politics in Ceylon
Author: Robert N. Kearney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520331753

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon

The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon
Author: Kumari Jayawardena
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1972
Genre: Labor movement
ISBN:

Based on a section of the author's thesis, University of London.

The Labour Movement in the Global South

The Labour Movement in the Global South
Author: S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136904255

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.

Fear of Small Numbers

Fear of Small Numbers
Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2006-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822387549

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other? Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in the early 1990s to the contemporary “war on terror.” Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, he describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves as parts of powerful global majorities. By exacerbating the inequalities produced by globalization, the volatile, slippery relationship between majorities and minorities foments the desire to eradicate cultural difference. Appadurai analyzes the darker side of globalization: suicide bombings; anti-Americanism; the surplus of rage manifest in televised beheadings; the clash of global ideologies; and the difficulties that flexible, cellular organizations such as Al-Qaeda present to centralized, “vertebrate” structures such as national governments. Powerful, provocative, and timely, Fear of Small Numbers is a thoughtful invitation to rethink what violence is in an age of globalization.

Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

Political Obligation in Its Historical Context
Author: John Dunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2002-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521891592

Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.