Global Rupture examines the enduring and expanding significance of informal and precarious labour under neo-liberal capitalism. Its pathbreaking, multi-disciplinary and methodologically rich case studies from across the Global South, integrate theory and practice to scrutinise the factors preventing a worldwide decent work agenda.

Notes on Contributors Introduction  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness PART 1: South-West Asia 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey  Safak Tartanoglu Bennett 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism  Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer PART 2: Africa 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s  Bridget Kenny 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors  Ilona Steiler PART 3: South Asia 5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour  Amal Shahid 6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector  Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra 7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers  Danisha Kazi 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka  Shanka P. Dharmapala PART 4: South-East Asia 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry  Anna Salmivaara PART 5: Latin America 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic  Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina  Lorena Poblete 12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina  Dolores Señorans Epilogue  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness Index