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Volume four, issue two (November 2012) For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity

Issue editors: Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys, Laurence Cox, Ana Margarida Esteves www.interfacejournal.net/current/

Volume four, issue two of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now out, on the special theme “For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity” Interface is open-access (free), global and multilingual. Our overall aim is to “learn from each other’s struggles”: to develop a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions and national or regional contexts. Like all issues of Interface, this issue is free and open-access.

This issue of Interface includes 529 pages and 28 pieces in English and Spanish, by authors writing from / about Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, the UK and the US among other countries.

Articles in this issue include:

   Peter
   Waterman,  Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys, Laurence Cox, Ana
   Margarida Esteves,
   For the global emancipation of labour:
   new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity

For the global emancipation of labour

   Wolfgang
   Schaumberg,
   Development in China and Germany: another
   world is possible? (action note)
   Dae-Oup Chang,
   The neoliberal rise of East Asia and
   social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge
   Joe Sutcliffe,
   Labour movements in the global South: a
   prominent role in struggles against neo-liberal globalisation?
   (action
   note)
   Stefania Barca,
   On working-class environmentalism: a
   historical and transnational overview
   Nora Räthzel and
   Peter Uzzell,
   Mending the breach between labour and
   nature: environmental engagements of trade unions and the North-South
   divide
   Melanie Kryst,
   Coalitions of labor unions and NGOs: the
   room for maneuver of the German Clean Clothes Campaign
   Jean Faniel,
   Trade unions and the unemployed: towards
   a dialectical approach
   Martine D’Amours,
   Guy Bellemare and Louise Briand,
   Grasping new forms of unionism: the case
   of childcare services in Quebec
   Annalisa Murgia
   and Giulia Selmi,
   “Inspire and conspire”: Italian
   precarious workers between self-organization and self-advocacy
   Alberto Arribas
   Lozano,
   Sobre la precariedad y sus fugas. La
   experiencia de las Oficinas de Derechos Sociales
   Franco Barchiesi,
   Liberation of, through, or from work?
   Postcolonial Africa and the problem with “job creation” in the global
   crisis
   Elise Thorburn,
   A common assembly: multitude, assemblies,
   and a new politics of the common
   Godfrey Moase,
   A new species of shark: towards direct
   unionism (action note)
   Nicolás Somma,
   The Chilean student movement of 2011 –
   2012: challenging the marketization of education (event analysis)
   Tristan
   Partridge,
   Organizing process, organizing life:
   collective responses to precarity in Ecuador (action note)
   Peter
   Waterman,
   An emancipatory global labour studies is
   necessary! On rethinking the global labour movement in the hour of
   furnaces

General articles:

   Jackie Smith,
   Connecting social movements and political
   moments: bringing movement building tools from global justice to Occupy
   Wall
   Street activism
   Kenneth Good,
   Democratisation from Poland to Portugal,
   1970s – 1990s and in Tunisia and Egypt since 2010
   Mayssoun
   Sukarieh,
   From terrorists to revolutionaries: the
   emergence of “youth” in the Arab world and the discourse of
   globalization
   Corey Wrenn,
   The abolitionist approach: critical
   comparisons and challenges within the animal rights movement
   Ángel Calle
   Collado,
   Marta Soler Montiel, Isabel Vara Sánchez, David Gallar Hernández,
   La
   desafección al
   sistema agroalimentario: ciudadanía y redes sociales
   Tomás Mac Sheoin,
   Power imbalances and claiming credit in
   coalition campaigns: Greenpeace and Bhopal

This issue’s reviews include the following titles:

   Ben Selwyn, Workers, state and development in Brazil:
   powers of labour, chains of value. Reviewed by Ana Margarida
   Esteves.
   Jai Sen (ed.), Interrogating empires and Imagining
   alternatives. Reviewed by Guy
   Lancaster.
   Janet
   Conway,  Edges of global justice:
   the World Social Forum and its “others”.
   Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.
   Alan Bourke, Tia
   Dafnos and Kip Markus (eds.), Lumpencity:
   discourses of marginality / marginalizing discourses. Reviewed by
   Chris
   Richardson.
   Craig Calhoun, The roots of radicalism: tradition, the
   public sphere and early nineteenth century social movements.
   Reviewed by
   Mandisi Majavu.

A call for papers for volume 5 issue 2 of Interface is now open, for pieces on any aspect of social movement research and practice that fit within our mission statement (www.interfacejournal.net/who-we-are/mission-statement/). We can review and publish articles in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. The website has the full CFP and details on how to submit articles for this issue at

www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Interface-4-2-CFP-vol-5-no-2.pdf

The next issue of Interface (May 2013) will be under the title “Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social movements”.