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Trade Union Responses to Economic Liberalisation in Ghana (2021)
Thesis
Asafu-Adjaye, P. Trade Union Responses to Economic Liberalisation in Ghana. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study draws on three case studies to investigate the response by trade unions in Ghana to economic liberalisation. The first case study documents trade union struggles to counter the commercialisation and privatisation of electricity in the coun... Read More about Trade Union Responses to Economic Liberalisation in Ghana.

The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., & Petrova, S. (2021). The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(5), 1031-1050. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20986807

Analysis of precarity has offered a critique of labour market experiences and politically induced conditions of work, housing, migration, or essential services. This paper develops an infrastructural politics of precarity by analysing energy as a cri... Read More about The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa.

The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, T. O., Hassan, M., & Hossain, N. (2021). The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19. World Development, 137, Article 105216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105216

As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in 2020, the government of Bangladesh ordered a lockdown and promised a program of relief. Citizens complied at first, but soon returned to economic and social life; relief proved slow and uncertain, and citizens could... Read More about The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19.