Work in the Global Economy: editorial introduction

The 2021 launch of Work in the Global Economy (WGE) has three underlying aims: first, to open up a new space to analyse and debate the changing conditions of work and labour in an era of globalised, unleashed capitalism; second to interrogate, theoretically and empirically, the labour process as a distinct moment in the circuits of capital; third, to re-connect the politics of production with the wider contradictory processes of capital accumulation. To achieve these aims, WGE welcomes the submission of new studies that deepen our knowledge of work patterns and organisations in different regions, nation states, local and international chains of production, distribution and exchange. Looking ahead, the challenge is to expose the institutional means of labour subordination, patterns of resistance, conflict and accommodations while revealing analytically how social relations at work are framed by wider class relations within a global context conditioned by crisis tendencies, regional inequalities and uneven development.