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Public Banking on the Future We Want (2019)
Book Chapter
Marois, T. (2019). Public Banking on the Future We Want. In L. Steinfort, & S. Kishimoto (Eds.), Public Finance for the Future We Want (150-156). TNI

From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India (2019)
Journal Article
Raj, J., & Axelby, R. (2019). From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53(2), 272-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719836881

This article examines the circumstances in which the tasks performed by professional labour contractors may be passed on to worker-agents. It does so by critically engaging with the experience of migrant workers from the eastern Indian state of Jhark... Read More about From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India.

Variegated Finance Capital and the Political Economy of Islamic Banking in the Gulf (2019)
Journal Article
Hanieh, A. (2019). Variegated Finance Capital and the Political Economy of Islamic Banking in the Gulf. New Political Economy, 25(4), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2019.1613354

The significant expansion of Islamic Finance (IF) over recent years provides a useful vantage point for examining the variegated nature of global finance. Nonetheless, within the substantial political economy literature on IF, there has been surprisi... Read More about Variegated Finance Capital and the Political Economy of Islamic Banking in the Gulf.

Epilogue: Whither Humanitarian Disarmament? (2019)
Book Chapter
Njeri, S., Benjamin-Britton, T., & Bolton, M. B. (2019). Epilogue: Whither Humanitarian Disarmament?. In M. B. Bolton, S. Njeri, & T. Benjamin-Britton (Eds.), Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament (253-259). Palgrave Macmillan

Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle (2019)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle

On the sixth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, Alessandra Mezzadri, a Senior Lecturer at SOAS, London, and author of The Sweatshop Regime: Garment, Exploitation and Labouring Bodies 'Made in India’, discusses the progress - or lack of - when it... Read More about Rana Plaza, Six Years On: We Will Not Shop Where We Cannot Struggle.