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The article focuses on Michael Burawoy's intellectual journey from Britain to various regions in the Global South, which profoundly shaped his sociological perspectives. Topics include his confrontation with Britain's imperialism and its impact on his views of class and state dynamics, the influence of his fieldwork in post-colonial like Zambia and India on his understanding of racial capitalism, and his evolving engagement with social change and public sociology through global connections.

In addition, the secondary workforce tends to have less long-term attachment to a single employer, and informal workers most often toil in fragmented workplaces or even alone (as with domestic workers) and may not be considered workers at all. Kwon similarly advocates for coalitions uniting Korea's regular and irregular workers, identity-based worker organizations (young workers, immigrant workers), and broader communities, using as her touchstone the pro-democracy Candlelight Movement that toppled corrupt - and anti-labor - President Park Geun-hye. Though the right to free association is still legally recognized, that right has been whittled away, to the point, Cornell writes, that "millions of workers in the USA continue to be denied the ability to organize collectively, many state and municipal public sector workers have no legal mechanism to bargain collectively or are prohibited by law from doing so, and the vast majority of both private and public sector workers are deprived of any meaningful right to strike" (p. 60). He consistently abstracts to "workers" as a whole, but his proposals to raise the floor under job quality, empower workers, and constrain management's prerogatives would certainly benefit those groups of workers who are located in the worst jobs, most disempowered, and most subject to arbitrary management action. [Extracted from the article]

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Edited by Marco Giugni and Florence Passy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 283 Pp. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $29.95. In a world where discussions of recent trends in religion and culture often [...]

This article discusses the different manners in which Michael Burawoy portrays the social aspects of capitalism. Topics include colonialism, social democracy, and labor relations.