Joyce Abebrese studied for a BA in Political and Economic Science at the University of Kassel before she continued her studies at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. She started the MA in Social Science with a focus on management and regulation of labour, economy and organisation. To conclude her studies, she recently finished her MA-thesis considering the topic of Programme and Practice of the ILO Decent Work Programme in Ghana. She also worked with the university group of social democrats and started to work for a German trade union.
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“We need to back that dialogue with some action” – Programme and Practice of Decent Work in Ghana | February 3, 2014
Zeynep Ekin Aklar has been working as a project specialist in the Mother and Child Education Foundation since November 2011. She worked at KESK as trade union expert between 2006-2008.
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Gregory Albo is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. He teaches courses on the foundations of political economy, Canadian political economy, alternatives to capitalism, and democratic administration.
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Unions and the Crisis: Ways Ahead? | December 11, 2009
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Elmar Altvater is a retired Professor of International Political Economy at the Free University of Berlin, who has written extensively on political economy, ecology, globalisation and financial markets. He has been an active trade unionist for many years. He is member of the Academic Council of ATTAC Germany.
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European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration? | May 3, 2011
Renzo Ambrosetti is co-president of Unia and vice-president of IndustriAll Europe.
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A huge setback | March 6, 2014
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Giorgos Argitis is Associate Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include political economy and international political economy. He has published books and articles on monetary and financial economics, income distribution and the Greek economy inspired by his reflections on people such as Marx, Veblen and Keynes.
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Greece in the deadlock of the Troika’s Austerity Trap | December, 17 2012
Dennis Arnold is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development. Drawing on research in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, Dennis’ work focuses on labour, migration and citizenship; global production network analysis; and borderlands of continental Southeast Asia.
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Better Work or ‘Ethical Fix’? Lessons from Cambodia’s Apparel Industry | November 4, 2013
Sam Ashman is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Senior Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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The Meaning of Marikana | March 12, 2013
Mohamed Attaallah is a Master student in Management in Nonprofit-Organsations at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany and intern in Global Policy and Development Department at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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A New Tool Is Born – The Social Protection Floor Index | July 5, 2016
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Ahmed Badawi is a political scientist, a non-affiliated academic and the Co-Executive Director of the Berlin-based Transform: Centre for Conflict Engagement and Political Development.
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Egyptian Labour in the Shadow of Revolution | June 2, 2014
Paulo Eduardo de Andrade Baltar is a researcher at the Centre for Labour Economics and Trade Unionism - CESIT – in the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP – Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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More pay and more jobs: how Brazil got both | June 16, 2010
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Camila Bassi is a Human Geographer and political activist based in the UK. Her research includes the exploration of the intersection of ‘race’ and sexuality within and through urban political economy. Camila has also published a critique of the revolutionary left vanguard of England's anti-war movement, through what she argues to be the spirit of Marxism (the task of building a third camp of independent, internationalist, working class politics), and a critique of left-wing anti-Semitism.
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Britain’s Corbyn moment: A Gramscian perspective | March 14, 2016
Milford Bateman is a freelance consultant on local economic development and, since 2006, a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Juraj Dobrila Pula in Croatia.
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The Microfinance Delusion | March 5, 2012
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Walter Belik is a Professor at the Institute of Economics and Coordinator of the Center for Food Studies in the University of Campinas, Brazil. He was one of the coordinators of the Zero Hunger Project and a member of the National Food Security Council (2003-06). His current line of research is Food and Nutritional Security and Rural Poverty.
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Zero Hunger: A Food Security Perspective for Brazil | October 30, 2012
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Özge Berber Agtaş is currently working at the ILO Office for Turkey. She received her master's degree on Labour Policies and Globalization from Global Labour University (Germany, 2007).
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Andreas Bodemer is a former fellow of the Hans Boeckler Foundation and holds a PhD in political science from the Free University of Berlin. He worked at the DGB Brussels office before joining the Bureau for Workers' Activities at the ILO in Geneva. His research interests are Global Social Policy, International Labour Standards and Trade Unions.
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Working for a Social Protection Floor | November 28, 2011
Christine (Chris) Bonner is the Director of the Organization and Representation Programme of WIEGO. She played a supportive role in the development of the IDWF and during the campaign for C189. Resident in South Africa she worked in the Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU), a COSATU affiliate for 16 years, and was the Founding Director of the worker education institute DITSELA.
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“Yes, we did it!” Domestic Workers Launch an International Federation | February 10, 2014
Paolo Borioni, Ph.D. is a historian who works for the Fondazione
Giacomo Brodolini and collaborates with the Center
for Nordic Studies, Helsinki. His main fields of research are
the welfare state, Nordic history, and social democracy.
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Italy from Recession to a new Socioeconomic Identity | May 7, 2013
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Sharan Burrow is General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC.
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Esther Busser is the Assistant Director in the Geneva Office of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) since February 2009. She previously worked as trade policy advisor for the ITUC from 2003-2009.
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Trade, labour and the crisis: Time to rethink trade! | July 30, 2010
Stephen Campbell is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. His current research is focused on precarious labour and worker organising
among Myanmar migrants in Thailand.
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On Labour Organisations in Myanmar | July 22, 2013
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Ramon Certeza is a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP-SOLAIR). He serves as the National Coordinator of the IndustriALL Global Union for the Union Building project in the Philippines. He is the former General Secretary of the Confederation of Labor and Allied Social Services (CLASS-TUCP) and Assistant General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP).
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Digitisation of manufacturing: The quest for the Union 4.0 paradigm | September 11, 2017
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Lee Changgeun was an economic policy director of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). He is currently taking a course in Labour Policies and Globalisation as part of the Global Labour University.
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Challenges for Minimum Wage Campaign in South Korea | May 1, 2012
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Anis Chowdhury is the Director of the Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division at the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Bangkok.
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Tackling Unemployment and Growing Public Debt | March, 25 2013
Claire Clarke is Senior Section Assistant in the Inland Transport Sections of the ITF where she is responsible for research to support campaign and project activities, assisting with the development and implementation of strategic campaigns, and development and delivery of education programmes to affiliates to support activities, including industrial campaigns. She currently provides support for the ITF campaign on Uber. She is also the Secretariat contact within the Section on activities for women workers and young workers.
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Uber: don’t take us for a ride! | June 21, 2016
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Frank Connolly is Head of Communications with SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union). SIPTU is Ireland’s largest trade union with almost 200,000 members from a unionised workforce of 800,000 and a total labour force of 1.8 million people.
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EU ‘Austerity’ Deal won’t work – Irish Workers face a grim Future | January 18, 2012
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Conor Cradden is research fellow and former 'chargé de course' in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva, where he taught a masters degree course on the International political economy of standards. He has an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD from the European University Institute. Formerly head of research for a UK public sector trade union, he has expertise in labour and organization studies, transnational regulation, participatory democracy and sociological theory.
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The True Cost of Doing Business | August 15, 2011
Not performing to standard: The IFC’s social conditionality and freedom of association | June 23, 2015
Jan Cremers is a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies. He worked before as a European trade union leader and as director of the Dutch paritarian works council training fund. He also was a Member of the European Parliament.
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Why asbestos should be banned | October 7, 2013
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Michael Dauderstädt is the director of the division for Economic and Social Policy at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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Europe’s Hidden Inequality | February 14, 2011
Steve Davies is a lecturer at the Cardiff University School of
Social Sciences. He teaches and researches on globalisation,
trade unions and the public sector. He is a former trade union
official.
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Zero-hours Contracts | October 14, 2013
Antonio de Lisboa Amancio Vale is International Relations Secretary at CUT Brazil and President of the CUT Cooperation Institute (IC-CUT). In 2014 he was elected representative member of workers in the Board of Directors of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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What is at stake with the coup in Brazil? | August 22, 2016
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Clara Lea Dallaire-Fortier is a master’s student of the Economic Policies in the age of Globalisation (EPOG) (University of the Witwatersrand and Paris 13 Universities). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from McGill University. Her research interests include ecological and social economics as well as history. In the last years, she worked in different regional contexts in Canada and has been involved in the student movement for pluralism in economics, notably with the foundation of the Visible Hand web platform
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The 2012 student movement in Quebec: fair shares, commodification and saucepans | February 20, 2017
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Maria Helena dos Santos André is the Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities and a former Minister of Labour of Portugal. She writes in her personal capacity.
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Thank You Greece | January 25, 2015
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Ellen Ehmke is an associate doctoral fellow of the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), an academic North-South cooperation project hosted by the University of Kassel. Her research focus is on social protection policies in non-OECD countries. She has worked as a consultant for the ILO Social Security Department and taught social policy in Kassel and Berlin.
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Lassaad El Asmi has a doctorate in Mechanics from the University of Paris VI and an HDR in Applied Mathematics from the National School of Engineers of Tunis. On Feb. 9, 2011 after the revolution, he was appointed as President of the University of Carthage, and later that year in August, he was re-elected for a term of three years.
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The Tunisian General Labour Union - Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize | June 3, 2014
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David J. Pajón Espina is from the National Economy Planning Department of the Economics Faculty, University of Havana. His research interests include quantitative modeling for economic policy planning.
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Labour and Economic Reform in Cuba | May 8, 2012
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Oscar Fernández Estrada is from the National Economy Planning Department of the Economics Faculty, University of Havana. His principal research is around the functioning problems of the Cuban economy.
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Labour and Economic Reform in Cuba | May 8, 2012
John Evans is General Secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). Prior to joining TUAC, his previous appointments have included Research Officer at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Industry Secretary at the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET) in Geneva and Economist in the Economic Department of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in London. He is currently a member of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative, and member of the Helsinki Group.
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Creating jobs now and changing the economic growth model for the future | January 25, 2010
The G20 and Jobs – Time for “Plan B” | December 20, 2011
Peter Evans is an associate fellow in the Global Labour University network. He taught Sociology for many years at the University of California, Berkeley and earlier at Brown University and is now an Emeritus Professor. He has published articles on the global labour movement and is also known for his work on the political economy of development, exemplified by his 1995 book Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation and his more recent work on the 21st century developmental state.
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Reflecting on electoral catastrophe: What lessons can we take away from Trump’s victory? | December 12, 2016
Trevor Evans worked at the Regional Centre for Economic and Social Research (CRIES) in Managua, Nicaragua, and was professor of monetary economics at the Berlin School of Economics of Law and director of the university’s Institute for International Political Economy until 2015. He is a member of the coordinating committee of the European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe.
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The global economic slowdown | December 6, 2016
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Cathy Feingold is the director of the AFL-CIO’s International Department. She previously directed the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s work in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, including worker education and advocacy training, and popular methodologies to research and document the problems of women and migrant workers. She led the organization’s humanitarian response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
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The March to Protect Worker Rights and the Middle Class | March 28, 2011
João Antônio Felício is Secretary for International Relations of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) and President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Trained in Design and Arts João Felicio is working as a teacher in the public education system of state of São Paulo since 1973. His political activism and trade union engagement started in 1977 when he participated in the strikes against military dictatorship in Brazil.
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There are alternatives to the neoliberal blind alley! Towards a new progressive consensus | June 23, 2014
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Vitor Filgueiras is a labour inspector from the Ministry of Labour in Brazil. He is doing a Postdoc in Economics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and is a Researcher at CESIT (Centre of Trade Union Studies and Labour Eco-
nomics, UNICAMP).
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Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand and Senior Research Fellow attached to the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg.
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The Meaning of Marikana | March 12, 2013
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Dan Gallin is currently chair of the Global Labour Institute (GLI). Prior to this, Dan worked for the IUF (International Union of Food workers) from August 1960 until April 1997, since 1968 as General Secretary. He is currently researching union organization of women workers in the informal economy, labour move-ment history and issues of policy and organization in the international trade union movement.
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Francesco Garibaldo is an industrial sociologist and the former director of the Institute for Labour (IPL) and of the Institute for Economic and Social research (IRESCGIL) at CGIL, Italy’s largest trade union confederation.
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Fiat is at war, says Sergio Marchionne | April 19, 2011
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Pierre Girard is a PhD student in Economics with the Art-Dev research Unit at CIRAD (the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). He is based at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria (South Africa), a joint research centre with CIRAD.
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But where are the workers? How the youth entrepreneur model fails in Africa | December 22, 2017
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Thomas Greven is an educator, writer, and labour union consultant. He teaches at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at FU Berlin, and currently lives in Berlin and Dakar, Senegal.
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Trump and the Losers of Globalisation and Modernisation | December 12, 2016
Tandiwe Gross is a research student in the GLU Master programme Labour Policies and Globalisation in Germany. Her research interests include Cooperation of Trade Unions and NGOs and Corporate Accountability. She is also an activist for decent working conditions in global supply chains in various trade union and NGO networks.
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Rana Plaza: Private Governance and Corporate Power in Global Supply Chains | July 15, 2013
Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She specialises in European and international industrial relations, trade unions and equality.
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Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices | September 16, 2013
Alexander Guschanski is a PhD candidate at the University
of Greenwich and the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre. His current work is on the determinants of functional income distribution at the sectoral and firm level.
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Evidence that financialisation increases income inequality | November 22, 2016
Nyika Gwanoya is an economist and project manager at the Department of Trade and Industry in South Africa. He is reading for his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where he also teaches econometrics. His research interests are financial economics, industrial policy and international trade.
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Wage Negotiations for the Public Service in Zimbabwe | July 17, 2012
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Daniel Hawkins is the Director of Research at the National Union School of Colombia (ENS). He has a Masters in Global Political Economy and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Kassel, Germany, and completed a postdoctoral position at the Center for Global Workers' Rights at Pennsylvania State University from 2012 to 2013.
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The Peace Process in Colombia: seeds of hope for an embattled labour movement | September 23, 2016
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Siglinde Hessler is a former fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation and wrote her PhD thesis on the implementation of IFAs in the automotive industry in Mexico, where she has worked on several research projects on labour relations. She is currently researching the social history of Opel Bochum with the Ruhr University Bochum and the Industrial Metal Union (IG Metall).
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International Framework Agreements: Possibilities for a new Instrument | February 27, 2012
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Andrew Jackson is Chief Economist and National Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), where he has worked since 1989. He is also a Research Professor in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and a Fellow with the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. He has written numerous articles for popular and academic publications, and is the author of Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, published by Canadian Scholars Press (2005).
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Beyond “Stimulus” - Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession | February 1, 2010
Kjeld Jakobsen is an Associate professor at CESIT – Unicamp, a member of the GLU. He has a PhD in International Relations from USP (Brazil). He also works as a consultant for CUT, Brazil's largest union confederation, and for the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA).
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Brazilian Protests and their Effect on Labour | October 28, 2013
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Carol Jess is a PhD candidate with the Industrial Relations Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research is on strategies for trade union renewal. In addition, she works with the GLU Alumni Research Group on Gender and Trade Unions.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Outcome? | November 6, 2012
Gender & TU database – a basis for change? | June 4, 2013
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Renana Jhabvala is one of the early founders of Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She has been a Secretary of SEWA and the Chair of SEWA Bank. Presently she is the Chair of SEWA Bharat, which is the all India federation of SEWA. She has written extensively on the informal economy.
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Christian Kellermann is the Director of the Nordic Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Stockholm. Before joining the FES, he worked as a financial market analyst in Frankfurt and New York.
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A Plan B for the World Economy | August 30, 2011
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Ly Trinh Khanh is Phd researcher in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, University of Ghent. She worked for the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) for a number of years. She also worked as a consultant for the ILO Country Office for Vietnam from 2011 to 2015.
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The Insufficient protection of Vietnamese domestic workers in Saudi Arabia | November 14, 2016
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Brian Kohler is Director for Health, Safety and Sustainability at IndustriALL Global Union. A life-long trade unionist, Brian is presently working on his PhD in sustainable energy systems.
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Sustainability, Just Transition and Trade Unions | October 6, 2014
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Emre Eren Korkmaz is Director of Organization and International Relations in Textile Workers Union which is affiliate of DISK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey). He submitted his MA Thesis to Sabancı University in January 2013, entitled “Globalization, Global Labour Movement and Transnational Solidarity Campaigns: A Comparative Analysis of Three Solidarity Campaigns from Turkey”.
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How Spanish unions support unionisation in Turkey? | December 18, 2013
Richard Kozul-Wright is a senior UN economist heading the unit on Economic Integration and Cooperation Among Developing Countries in UNCTAD. He was previously in charge of the World Economic and Social Survey in UNDESA, New York. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and has published papers on economic history and development issues.
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Trade, employment and development: Back on track? | November 29, 2010
Hagen M. Krämer is a professor of economics at the Department of Management and Engineering at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Germany) whose research interests include income distribution and growth.
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The Working Rich Phenomenon: Top Incomes in Germany | October 6, 2012
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Pierre Laliberté is an economist at the Bureau of Workers’ Activities at the ILO in Geneva. He is the editor of the International Journal of Labour Research. Previously he worked with the Quebec Federation of Labour, the Canadian Labour Congress and the United Steelworkers of America.
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Worker Cooperatives as a Response to the Crisis | January, 28 2013
Dany Lang is associate professor of Economics at the University of Paris 13 (CEPN – CNRS) and member of the “Économistes atterrés” collective. His research is on post-Keynesian economics, including growth, income distribution, unemployment issues and path-dependency.
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The State as the Employer of last Resort | April 23, 2013
Sonia Languille is currently an independent researcher and post-doctoral associate to the Department of development studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). In 2015, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg (Faculty of Education) when she started her research on low-cost private schooling for the poor in South Africa. She holds a PhD in development studies from SOAS and a master in development economics from the University of Paris I (France).
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Corporate-backed private school chains for the poor: The South African experience | February 16, 2016
Sue Ledwith worked at Ruskin for 10 years, first rejuvenating and running the MA Women’s Studies and then developing the MA International Labour & Trade Union Studies. She also ran a 6-monthly seminar series for women trade union activists and academics, and a scholarship programme for international trade unionists. In 2016 Sue gained her PhD by published work: ‘Prospects for Gender Democracy in Labour Movements’ drawing on 25 years of research in the field.
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Ruskin, the trade union college, is under siege | June 15, 2017
Can migrating women escape patriarchy? | September 18, 2017
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Frederic Lee is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He taught at De Montfort University in the UK in the 1990s. His current research is on heterodox microeconomic theory. Finally he is a long-time member of the radical trade union, Industrial Workers of the World.
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State Funding of Research and the Narrowing of Economics in the United Kingdom | October 2, 2013
Sangheon Lee is the Special Advisor to the Deputy Director for Policy of the International Labour Office. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK.
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Kuznets after the end of the Kuznets Curve | February 11, 2015
Philippe Légé is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Picardie (UPJV, France). His work is in the history of economic thought and the analysis of the current crisis. He's a member of the French Association of Political Economy (AFEP).
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The struggle against pension reform in France | December 6, 2010
Steffen Lehndorff is an economist and research fellow at the Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (Institute for Work, Skills and Qualification / IAQ) at the University of Duisburg/Essen, Germany. His research focuses on employment relations and working time at organisational, national and international levels and includes comparative research into European employment models and industrial relations systems.
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Europe at the Crossroads | September 19, 2012
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Stephan Lessenich is a professor of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU, Munich, Germany) and coordinator of the Research Focus on "Global Capitalism and the Dynamics of Capitalism" at the LMU's Center of Advanced Studies.
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The ‘open society’ and its contradictions | June 23, 2017
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Anamary Maqueira Linares is from the National Economy Planning Department of the Economics Faculty, University of Havana. Her research interests include causalities and consequences of the economic cycles in mixed economies.
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Labour and Economic Reform in Cuba | May 8, 2012
Klaus Lörcher is former legal adviser of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)[, former head of the International and European Law Department of the United Serives Union (ver.di),] Germany, and former Legal secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union.
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Firing at will – the employers’ response to the crisis | May 25, 2011
Malte Luebker is a Working Conditions Specialist with the ILO’s Conditions of Work and Employment Branch (TRAVAIL) in Geneva. His main research interests are wages and income distribution. Prior to joining the ILO, he was a lecturer in Political Science at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).
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A Tide of Inequality: What can Taxes and Transfers achieve? | February 13, 2012
Goran Lukic works for the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia. He is currently involved in a three-year project for the integration of migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees and the empowerment of young workers. He also works on issues of precarious work.
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New Economy vs. Old Ways | November 7, 2011
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Birgit Mahnkopf is Professor of European Politics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She has published extensively on globalisation, the informal economy, industrial relations and European politics. She is member of the Academic Council of ATTAC Germany.
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European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration? | May 3, 2011
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Terence Manus was a shop steward and part-time union administrator in South Africa before moving to Germany where he joined the IGM international works circle, later becoming a fulltime official of the German Construction and Environmental Workers Union. He studied at the European Academy of Labour then completed a Masters from the Global Labour University.
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Marshall Plan with Africa: an opportunity for trade union revival? | November 29, 2017
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Magali Marega is a PhD candidate at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico. She is part of the Study Group on Labour Issues at FLACSO University, Ecuador, and the Study Group on Labour and Social Conflict at the National University of Rosario, Argentina.
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The slow death of Ecuadorian Banana workers | December 14, 2017
Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds an MA in Labour Policy and Globalisation from the same university, where he was part of the GLU programme. Currently he serves as head of communications at the South African Communist Party (SACP) and previously served in various leadership positions as a full-time shop steward and appointed trade union official.
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Regression of workers’ unity in South Africa: Divisions postpone greater progress and ultimate victory | May 16, 2017
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Jamie McCallum is a professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is veteran staff and organizer from the US labor movement.
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Supporting Dissent versus Being Dissent | November 21, 2011
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Alessandra Mecozzi has been the International Director of FIOM (the Italian Federation of Metalworkers) since 1996. She graduated from Rome's La Sapienza University with a thesis on the history of CGIL, the largest Italian union confederation. Alessandra has been working for FIOM since 1971.
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A modern Italian story | April 19, 2011
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Martina Metzger is the executive director of the Berlin Institute of Financial Market Research (BIF). Before joining BIF, she taught macroeconomics at several universities and worked with UNCTAD. Her areas of interest include financial market development in emerging market economies, macroeconomic stabilization and sustainable development.
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Brazil, India and South Africa: low spill-over, high resilience of financial sector | June 27, 2011
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Kristy Milland is community manager of TurkerNation.com. She has been a crowd worker for the last decade, as well as a Requester and a researcher. She is currently engaged in multiple projects to create new platforms which will offer fair compensation and other benefits to crowd workers.
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Crowd Work: Shame, Secrets, and an Imminent Threat to Employment | June 16, 2016
Seeraj Mohamed is director of the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID) in the School of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University). He also teaches at Wits University in the Economics Department and the Global Labour University Masters Programme. His work is in economic policy research, analysis and development. He has worked on economic and industrial policy for 2 decades.
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Social forces drive financial insecurity | November 15, 2010
Katherine Moloney is the Chair of the Healthy Supply Chains Initiative. She has undertaken research, policy development and change management for the United Nations, civil society and academic institutions. Her doctoral thesis focuses on human rights due diligence in global medical goods supply chains.
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The Australian model of cross-jurisdictional supply chain regulation | February 15, 2017
Lorenza Monaco was a fractional teacher at SOAS from 2012 to 2016, a member of the FFFP campaign since its launch, and a UCU fractional rep during the first year of negotiations. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Struggle pays back! A victory against casualisation at London University | September 18, 2017
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Özgür Müftüoglu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at Istanbul’s Marmara University. He has published widely on labour studies and political economy and has produced and presented a weekly TV programme ‘Emek- Forum’ (Labour-Forum) for the last 2 years. He is also a columnist for the daily newspaper Evrensel.
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The 2008 Crisis in Turkey and the Unions’ Response | March 14, 2011
Ronaldo Munck is Head of Civic Engagement at Dublin City University and an active trade unionist. His most recent book is Rethinking Global Labour: after neoliberalism.
Twitter: @ronaldomunck @GT_initiative
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Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism | May 23, 2012
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Kumi Naidoo is the Executive Director of Greenpeace International. He began his career as an activist as a youth leader in South Africa’s battle against Apartheid. He then became founding executive director of the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), before heading CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, from 1998 to 2008. He was the founding Chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), served as Chair of the civil society alliance ‘Global Campaign for Climate Action’ (GCCA) of which Greenpeace was a founding member, and also served as a board member of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.
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Talking about an Energy and Jobs Revolution | November 22, 2010
Léonce Ndikumana is the Andrew Glyn Professor of economics and Director of the African Development Policy program at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include issues external debt and capital flight, financial markets and growth in Africa.
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How Capital Flight Drains Africa: Stolen Money and Lost Lives | December 12, 2011
Anastasia Nesvetailova is Director of City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) at City University London, UK. Her research centres on the political economy of finance, financial regulation and governance. Her publications include Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit (2007, Palgrave), and Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (2010, Pluto)
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The epoch of Market based funding: Shadow Banking | October 30, 2014
Mbuso Nkosi is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He serves as the co-editor of the Global Labour Column.
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Struggle in a time of crisis | June 11, 2015
Tony Norfield is currently researching for a PhD on 'British imperialism and finance' at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His interests are centred on using Marxist theory to understand the contemporary imperialist world economy. Prior to this he had worked for nearly 20 years in bank dealing rooms analysing financial markets and had been Global Head of FX Strategy for a major European bank. He writes a blog on the 'Economics of Imperialism'.
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T-Shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy | August 7, 2012
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Bridget O'Laughlin is an anthropologist whose interests are in the political economy of work and health, which can be attributed to her teaching and conducting research at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. She has retired from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at the Hague and is currently a research associate of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE) in Mozambique.
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Capital, Labour and the Politics of Inequality in Global Public Health | April 6, 2017
David O’Connell has been a community and workplace organizer as well as a works council member. A recent graduate of the Global Labour University’s German campus, he is currently working with the ILO.
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The movement we need in Britain | July 31, 2017
Özlem Onaran is a Professor at the University of Greenwich.
She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Research
Network on Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic
Policies, a research associate at the Political Economy Research
Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
and a fellow of the Global Labour University.
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Crisis of Distribution, not a Fiscal Crisis | June 9, 2010
Planet Earth is Wage-Led! | March 18, 2013
Isabel Ortiz is Director of Social Protection at the ILO. Earlier she was the Director of the Global Social Justice Program at Joseph Stiglitz’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (2012-13), Associate Director of Policy at UNICEF (2009-12), and senior official at the United Nations DESA (2005-09) and at the Asian Development Bank (1995-2003), among other positions. She has worked in about 40 countries, providing advisory services to governments and organizations. Isabel Ortiz has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and has more than 50 publications translated in several languages.
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Fiscal Space for Social Protection: Options to Expand Social Investments in 187 Countries | June 23, 2015
Yasemin Özgün is Assistant Professor in political science at Anadolu University - Eskisehir, where she researches politics, the media and poltical communication. She has published widely on Turkish politics, labour studies, education and feminist politics.
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The 2008 Crisis in Turkey and the Unions’ Response | March 14, 2011
Ricardo Paes Mamede is a Professor of Political Economy at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute and holds a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy). He was head of department for economic analysis and policy evaluation at two government agencies in Portugal. In 2014 he coedited (with Aurora Teixeira and Ester Silva) the book Structural Change, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy: Painful Lessons from the European Periphery (Routledge).
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Trouble ahead in Portugal, still? | February 1, 2015
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Walter Palmer is a consultant for players’ associations and unions. He was formerly the Deputy Executive Director for International Relations and Marketing for the NBA players union and Head of Department at UNI World Athletes. A graduate of Dartmouth College in the United States, he was the 33rd pick in the 1990 NBA Draft and played professional basketball for 13 years, 11 of them in Europe.
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It's time for a global framework agreement in world sport | August 8, 2016
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Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His most recent books in English are The Great Eurozone Disaster. From Crisis to Global New Deal (Zed Books, 2013) and The Political Economy of Global Security. War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (Routledge, 2008). Patomäki was involved in the Attac-movement since its inception, and is now standing as a Left Alliance candidate for the European Parliament.
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Democratic global Keynesianism: a long-overdue Vision of Progressive Politics | January 20, 2014
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Bilge Pınar Yenigün is currently working at the ILO Office for Turkey. She received her master's degree on Labour Policies and Globalization from Global Labour University (Germany, 2014).
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Protracted Displacement: Syrian Refugees in Turkey | March 2, 2016
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Nora Räthzel works at the department of sociology, University of Umea, Sweden. Her research areas include trade union policies on climate change, the globalisation of transnational corporations, workers' lives and work in transnational corporations. She has previously done research on everyday racism, ethnic and gender relations.
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Lack of Rain in the Rainforest | April 4, 2012
Paul Rechsteiner is President of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB).
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A huge setback | March 6, 2014
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Peter Rossman is the Director of Campaigns and Communication for the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF).
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Unpacking CETA | September 27, 2016
Anamitra Roychowdhury teaches economics at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His forthcoming book is tentatively titled as, Labour Law Reforms in India: All in the name of jobs, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Books.
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How to read the 2 September strike in India? | June 1, 2017
Helen Russell is an alumnus of the Global Labour University. She is currently the Trade Union Training Officer of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). Previously she worked for the British unions UNISON and NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union. This article is written in a personal capacity.
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UK Trade Union Bill: Latest in line of global attacks on right to strike | November 16, 2015
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy at SOAS, University of London, and was a senior economic affairs officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has published extensively on the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of value and its applications.
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Global crisis, Neoliberalism, and left alternatives | February 3, 2017
Soledad Salvador is a Guest professor at the Instituto de Economia/CESIT – Unicamp in Brazil. He has a PhD in Economics from UNAM (Mexico) and has published on labour economics and development.
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Toby Sanger is a CCPA research associate and senior economist with the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He previously worked as principal economic policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance and as chief
economist for the Yukon government.
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Taxing Finance | July 18, 2011
Jacques Sapir is Professor of economics and Director of the CEMI Research Centre at EHESS (Paris), which focuses on Russia and CIS countries and on international development. He is the author of several books on the Russian economy, international finance and economic theory, notably (2000) “Les trous noirs de la science économique. Essai sur l'impossibilité de penser le temps et l'argent”, Paris: Albin Michel and (2011) “La Démondialisation”, Paris: Le Seuil.
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Is the Eurozone doomed to fail? | August 1, 2011
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Sofia Scasserra is an economist. She is advisor to the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Services Workers in trade and economic policy issues and a teacher and researcher at the National University Tres de Febrero where she specializes in AI, future world of work and data trades debates. She is a member of the World Labour Institute there and coordinates the Diploma on International Trade Union Relations.
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The gig economy: A challenge for the trade union movement | October 1, 2018
Algorithms, data and a new labour agenda | January 7, 2020
Thierry Schaffauser is a sex worker and trade unionist. He is an advocacy officer for the European sex workers' network ICRSE and a former GMB sex workers' branch president and SER-TUC LGBT network secretary in the UK. He is currently a trade union organiser with STRASS, the French sex workers' trade union
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Sex Workers’ Struggles: Trade Unions must accept Workers’ Realities | December 27, 2015
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Peter Scherrer is the General Secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF). He was previously a trade union representative of the German metalworkers’ trade union, IG Metall, responsible for the steel industry.
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For a real European Industrial Policy | July 16, 2010
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Christian Schoder is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Department of Economics at The New School, N.Y. He holds MA degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of Vienna.
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On the urgency of stopping global warming | November 8, 2010
Dr. Cäcilie Schildberg is programme manager for social protection at the international level and coordinates the "gender-equal approaches to globalisation" project at the Global policy and Development Department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin.
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A New Tool Is Born – The Social Protection Floor Index | July 5, 2016
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Erwin Schweisshelm has been working with the International department of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung since 1979 in Germany, Indonesia and Vietnam. He held the position as the coordinator of the Global Trade Union Program of FES from 1994 to 2006. Currently, he is Resident Director of the FES Office in Vietnam.
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Trade Unions in Transition – Changing Industrial Relations in Vietnam | September 8, 2014
Bernadette Ségol is the Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation. Previously she was the head of UNI Europa, the European trade union federation for services and communication which represents 7 million workers and 330 affiliated trade unions. One of her main focuses is wage equality in Europe.
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The Crisis: the Response of the European Trade Unions | February 20, 2012
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Willi Semmler is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the The New School, New York. He is member of the New York Academy of Sciences and has been a visitor at Columbia, Stanford and the Cepremap in Paris. The second edition of his book "Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions" (Springer Publishing House) was recently published.
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On the urgency of stopping global warming | November 8, 2010
Anil Shah was a research assistant at the subdivision “Globalization and Politics” of the Department of Politics at the University of Kassel. He has an interest in theories of global political economy and socio-ecological research. He recently published his master’s thesis, “Destructive Creation: Analyzing Socio-Ecological Conflicts as Frontiers of Capitalist Development” as a working paper.
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The Return of Commercial Prison Labour | April 14, 2017
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Michael Sommer was President of the German DGB from 2002 to 2014 and President of the ITUC until 2014.
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A Marshall Plan for Europe | May 13, 2013
Friederike Spiecker is a macroeconomist and independent consultant. She has published widely together with Heiner Flassbeck, chief economist at UNCTAD, on German, European and international economic policy.
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Change or lose Europe | March 7, 2011
Dave Spooner is a Director of the Global Labour Institute in Manchester, UK, currently working with the International Transportworkers Federation in support of informal transport workers' organisation, and as an education specialist for Unite, Global Union Federations, and the ILO.
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The power of informal transport workers | December 22, 2017
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Paul Stewart teaches at Wits University, South Africa. He lived in the mineworkers’ compounds and went underground daily to do research for his PhD thesis entitled: ‘Labour time on the South African gold mines: 1886-2006’. Together with Dhiraj Nite, he edited a Special Congress Edition of a book entitled Mining Faces: an oral history of work in gold and coal mines in South Africa: 1951-2011, published by Fanele, an imprint of Jacana, in Johannesburg.
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The 2012 Strike Wave, Marikana and the History of Rock Drillers in South African Mines | January, 22 2013
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Servaas Storm is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He works on macroeconomics, globalization, agricultural development and the economics of climate change. He is one of the editors of the journal Development and Change.
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Paying for Inequality: The Costs of NAIRU-based Macroeconomics | November 1, 2010
Ilan Strauss is a researcher at the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Research unit at Wits University where he also lectures introductory econometrics. Ilan has worked as a researcher for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London on issues relating to trade and investment,and capital flight.
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Globalization and Taxation: Trends and Consequences | May 14, 2012
Claire Sullivan is the Director of Employment Relations and Union Services at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and heads up the trade union arm of the organisation. Claire worked in the NHS as a physiotherapist in London through the 1980s and 1990s before joining CSP.
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The NHS: safe in our hands? | February 12, 2017
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Kari Tapiola served as Deputy Director-General and Executive Director of the ILO from 1996 – 2010. Since October 2010 he has been Special Adviser to the Director-General of the ILO. In his professional life he has especially dealt with questions of labour standards and fundamental principles and rights at work. This column represents his personal views and is not an official position of the International Labour Office.
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On the Right to Strike Controversy | August 26, 2014
Ahmet Tellioglu is a medical doctor, who started his career in 1995 in the mining town of Zonguldak. In 2000 he lost his job at a public hospital in Istanbul due to trade union activities, and was reinstated by court decision in 2009. Since 2000 he has been working as a workplace physician. He has also coordinated the EU funded professional training project to raise awareness against torture.
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Turkey seen through the Prism of Occupational Diseases: Success Story or Hidden Disaster? | July 14, 2014
In 1976, Jan Theron became general secretary of the Food and Canning Workers Union (FCWU), and when it merged with other unions to become the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), in 1986, was its first general secretary. Since leaving the union movement he has combined legal practice and research with the Labour and Enterprise Policy Research Group (LEP) at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Solidarity Road: the Story of a Trade Union in the Ending of Apartheid (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2016).
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Solidarity for whom? How Cosatu became part of the establishment | June 30, 2017
Pham Thi Thu Lan worked in the International Department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) since 1994. She started research work in the Institute for Workers and Trade Unions (IWTU) in 2016. Currently, she is Deputy-Director of the IWTU.
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Why always wildcat strikes in Vietnam? | October 5, 2017
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Rahul Tiwrekar is a lawyer based at Palghar in Maharashtra. He has a Masters in Globalisation and Labour from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Berlin school of Economics and Law, Germany. Rahul worked on the issues related to Legal Aid, MGNREGA, Right to food, schemes in tribal areas and legislative advocacy for past eight years.
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Social Audits as a tool of transparency in India’s rural public works scheme | October 5, 2016
Steven Toff, a GLU alumnus, is currently studying law as a Public Interest Law Scholar at Northeastern University in Boston. He is veteran staff and organizer from the US labor movement.
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Supporting Dissent versus Being Dissent | November 21, 2011
Tolga Tören completed two master's degree(s), the first at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Development Economics and Economic Growth (DDEEG), and the second at GLU in the University of the Witwatersrand. He went on to complete his PhD in DDEEG. Having been one of the signatories of a petition entitled "We will not be party to this crime" by the Academics for Peace Initiative in January 2016 he was dismissed from his position at Mersin University and from all public duties in Turkey by the Turkish government. As of May 2017, he conducts his studies at the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) of the University of Kassel as a scholar at risk
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How President Erdogan is marketing the state of emergency | November 10, 2017
Raymond Torres is the Director for the International Institute for Labour Studies at the International Labour Organization. He recently launched the World of Work Report, the new annual flagship publication from the Institute.
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Global Financial Crisis 2.0 | March 8, 2010
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Owen Tudor is Head of European Union and International Relations for the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the British national trade union centre where he has worked since 1984. He is a substitute member of both the European Trade Union Confederation executive committee and the International Trade Union Confederation general council.
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A year of Brexit: trade union perspectives | September 4, 2017
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Martin Upchurch is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School, London, UK. He is co-author of The Realities of Partnership at Work (2008, Palgrave) and The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: the search for alternatives (2009, Ashgate).
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The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe | November 24, 2009
Mac Urata is Section Secretary of the ITF’s Inland Transport Sections. He also leads the global campaign by ITF against Uber, which represents taxi unions globally by supporting them to lobby national governments for a level playing field. Prior to his appointment to the current position, Urata worked in the ITF’s regional office in Tokyo and earlier for a Japanese public transport workers’ union.
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Uber: don’t take us for a ride! | June 21, 2016
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Kees van der Waal is a professor in Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. His research interests are in the local experience of development interventions in the Western Cape and Limpopo Provinces, in the politics of cultural identity and in ethnography as a research method.
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Winelands, Wealth and Work | June 30, 2014
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Jo Vervecken is an economist and trade unionist who coordinates the Development Cooperation Program of FOS, the North-South organization of the socialist movement in Flanders-Belgium, in the Andean region, in search of social justice worldwide.
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The slow death of Ecuadorian Banana workers | December 14, 2017
Jeffrey Vogt is the legal advisor for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Before joining the ITUC in 2011, he was the global economic policy specialist for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL CIO) and later the deputy director of its International Department. Previously, he represented domestic and foreign trade unions in litigation in state and federal courts. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School, where he earned his JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law. He further studied international law at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.
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The right to strike | April 22, 2014
Asbjørn Wahl is a trade union and political writer, speaker and activist. Until recently, he was president of the Urban Transport Committee of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) as well as chair of the ITF Working Group on Climate Change for almost ten years. He is member of the Global Advisory Group of the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy network.
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Building progressive alliances | July 5, 2011
At the time of writing this column Andrew Watt was a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, focusing on European macroeconomic and employment-related policies, and recently especially on the crisis in the euro area. He is now the Head of Department at the Hans-Böckler Foundation, responsible for the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK).
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Making its voice heard: a role for the labour movement in policies for recovery | April 21, 2010
The economic crisis and job quality in Europe: some worrying trends and worse may be to come | August 13, 2012
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Jesse Wilderman is a graduate of the Global Labour University program at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg where he completed his research on organising among farm workers. Prior to that, Jesse was an organizer and elected union leader for 12 years at a 25,000 member health care workers union in the United States. He currently serves as a fellow at the Chris Hani Institute in South Africa and provides organising training to trade unions and social justice groups around the continent.
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Farm Worker Uprising on the Western Cape: From “Flexible Work” to “Moment of Madness” | May 21, 2015
George Wilson is currently a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests are labour law, industrial relations, governance and regulation and his doctoral thesis explores the legal implications of proposals for a European Union minimum wage policy.
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The National Living Wage and Alternative Enforcement | October 22, 2015
Ross Wilson established the ILO Freedom of Association Project in Myanmar in 2012-2013, was president of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions between 1999 and 2007, and is currently executive chair of the Unions Aotearoa International Development Trust (UnionAID).
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The New Union Movement in Myanmar | September 25, 2013
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Guillermo Zuccotti is an economist by profession, having obtained his postgraduate studies with a focus on economic growth and public policies. He currently works as an advisor at the International relationships for the Secretary of the General Labour Confederation of Argentina (CGTRA).
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Can the future of work be uncoupled from productive development? | October 26, 2017
Roland Zullo is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy at the University of Michigan. Zullo researches union strategy, privatization, outsourcing, political mobilization, collective bargaining, and critical pedagogy.
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Right to Work and Michigan Labour | February, 25 2013
