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Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920 (2024)
Journal Article
Wright, M. (2024). Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920. *Journal not in list, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.13169/jofstudindentleg.4.2.0021

Indian women represented something of a persistent problem for colonial officials. The Indian Government consistently emphasized the importance of obtaining high numbers of indentured women, as the lack of women on plantations was portrayed as leadin... Read More about Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920.

Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement (2024)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2024). Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement. In F. Fauri, & D. Mantovani (Eds.), Past and Present Migration Challenges: What European and American History Can Teach Us (219-245). Palgrave MacMillan with the support of the European Commission. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39431-7_9

This chapter examines the 2022 UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP). This arrangement includes an asylum partnership arrangement (APA), allowing the British government to send people to Rwanda who would otherwise claim asyl... Read More about Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement.

Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU) (2022)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M., & Sallah, F. (in press). Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU). Global labour journal, 13(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.4557

Utilising elements of Coordination and Context-Appropriate Power Theory (CCAP) as a framework, this article assesses the efforts of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU) in Ghana to defend the rights of workers in the... Read More about Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU).

ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness (2022)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M., & Cojocaru, M. (in press). ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness. Global labour journal, 13(2), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.4980

Based on interviews with trade union officials from different islands and the Inspector General of Labour, this article examines the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by labour organisations in Cabo Verde. Distributed discourse... Read More about ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness.

African Trade Unions and the Politics of Gender: A Collection of Interviews with Rhoda Boateng, Marjorie Chanda Mutale, Deborah Freeman, Leontine Mbolanomena and Maria Joaquina Almeida (2022)
Journal Article
Cojocaru, M., & McQuinn, M. (2022). African Trade Unions and the Politics of Gender: A Collection of Interviews with Rhoda Boateng, Marjorie Chanda Mutale, Deborah Freeman, Leontine Mbolanomena and Maria Joaquina Almeida. Global labour journal, 13(2), 250-259. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.5195

The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital (2022)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (2023). The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital. Capital & Class, 47(2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221084110

This article addresses how Marxist economists have estimated the quantity of fixed and circulating capital advanced in the denominator of the rate of profit calculation. Generally, Marxist economists have used neoclassical fixed capital estimates of... Read More about The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital.