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Central to the understanding of work in and by the Global South are processes of migration, in particular, international mobility. Work undertaken by workers originating from the Global South is often located within industrialized economies of the Global North where their labour is expropriated. The flow perspective of the labour process (Smith, 2010) provides a sophisticated conceptualization of the labour process and labour power that is sensitive to flows of international migration but is silent in terms of an analysis of racial and ethnic discrimination, wider structural effects of the political economy on the migrant labour process and North-South power relations and asymmetries. Postcolonial studies provide a useful corrective to theories developed from the perspective of the Global North, such as LPT, by foregrounding colonial, decolonial and neocolonial relationships between metropolitan-core and colonial-peripheries in the global political economy, as well as the agency and collective solidarities of subaltern actors from the Global South. Therefore, LPT stands to benefit from a postcolonial orientation by developing a more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of work in and by the Global South. Insufficient attention to issues in the political economy and how this relates to the labour process have been identified as a weakness in LPT research, leading several authors to identify a nascent ‘fourth wave’ of LPT characterised by a stronger emphasis on the political economy through an analysis of capital-labour relations ‘beyond the workplace’ (Thompson and Smith, 2010). This chapter makes a theoretical contribution to the emergence of fourth wave LPT by developing a conceptualization of the relationship between the migrant labour process and core-periphery power relations from a postcolonial perspective. Postcolonial theory is not homogeneous, it is more appropriate to refer to it as postcolonial theories because it comprises a heterogeneous mix of theories including discursive and materialist approaches (Young, 1998; Jack et al., 2011; Loomba, 2015; Kerner, 2013, 2018). A postcolonial approach grounded in a materialist analysis of the political economy and culture (Lazarus, 2011, 2012, 2016; Mignolo, 2000; Quijano, 2000; Grosfoguel, 2002; Parry, 2004; Chandra, 2017; Rao, 2017; Deckard and Varma, 2019) will be drawn on in this chapter in order to develop an analysis of the migrant labour process in the context of North–South power relations and asymmetries (Kerner, 2018).

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does this by interrogating the underlying assumptions that transparency in the form of increased information disclosure inevitably leads to enhanced accountability and reduced corruption. Theoretic insights are drawn from the transparency literature as well as from the International Accounting Standards Board's framework for financial reporting. The findings enable a more nuanced understanding of transparency – where and when transparency works, and where and when it may lead to unintended outcomes. They show how increased information disclosure conceals and legitimises the weak and corrupt reporting systems and practices of government agencies. They highlight the importance of understandability of information disclosed as a key requirement of transparency. They illustrate that transparency is a complex social process by highlighting the means by which the government tries to gain control of the NEITI organisation and how NEITI's ability to operate effectively is dependent on the political will of the government in power. The findings also demonstrate that the instrument through which transparency is enacted is itself a central actor in the transparency process as historical corruption within the NEITI bureaucracy as well as the opacity of NEITI as an organisation lead to outcomes of distrust, uncertainty and doubt amongst NEITIs target audience.

Research on changes to work and employment in the European Union (EU) have highlighted the increase in precarious forms of work (ILO 2012; McKay et al. 2012) especially among migrant workers (Anderson 2010; Potter and Hamilton 2014). However, precariousness has traditionally been conceptualised as affecting migrants in low-skilled, low-status and low-wage jobs (Ahmad 2008; De Lima and Wright 2009) and undocumented migrants (Bloch 2013). This chapter argues that high-skilled migrant workers are increasingly experiencing precariousness resulting from changes to immigration policies in the United Kingdom (UK). The precarisation of high-skilled migrant workers is not merely an issue of changing legislation but occurs within the context of, and is driven by, neoliberal economic transformations. This raises the question: How do high-skilled migrants respond collectively to precariousness? Migrant networks are increasingly recognised as important sites for the collective agency of high-skilled migrants in their attempts to resist precarity; the complex dynamics of migrant collective agency are explored in this chapter as well as the shadow cast by the ‘dark side’ of migrant networks: the social reproduction of the very things migrant networks aim to resist – the control, potential for exploitation and segmentation of high-skilled migrants in work and employment. This chapter is organised into five sections. After this introduction, the next section sets the conceptual grounds for understanding high-skilled migrant workers, migrant networks and precariousness. The third section discusses the research methodology and the research findings are analysed in the fourth section. The final section concludes and identifies directions for future research.

The relationship between business and human rights is important and complex. The social responsibility of business is evolving as Multinational Corporations become more pervasive and powerful; their global footprint can be a force for good or can have a negative impact on human rights. This chapter looks at the relationship between business, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and human rights in the context of the global financial crisis. The extent to which private corporations are expected to respect human rights, including socio-economic rights, is discussed. The balance between business profitability protected by commercial rights such as under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the need to protect fundamental human rights is explored. The requirements for an effective international framework for business and human rights are analyzed with an emphasis on the Protect, Respect, Remedy Framework of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the core labor standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Recommendations are made regarding the means to effectively embed the respect for, and promotion of, human rights across all aspects of an organization and its value chain.

In spite of the potential synergies and mutual interdependence of corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), they have developed and been practiced independently of each other. The Global Financial Crisis gone some way in highlighting this disparity and has placed executive remuneration, especially in the financial services sector, in the public spotlight amid calls for reform and more effective regulation. This requires a new way of approaching executive remuneration and the overall organizational reward strategy. This chapter analyzes corporate governance and CSR, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence; explores the benefits and synergies derivable from integrating both corporate practices; discusses the different models used to achieve an integration of corporate governance and CSR; it positions CSR and corporate governance in relation to the Global Financial Crisis and to executive remuneration practices. Executive remuneration is explored in light of the financial crisis and consideration is given to the rationale for approaching executive compensation through the integration of CSR and corporate governance. A critical analysis is developed throughout the chapter which provides an overview of the practical implications and changes affecting executive remuneration and reward strategy if an integrated approach to corporate governance and CSR underpins executive compensation.