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Flexibilisation Policies and Labour Market Structures in France (2024)
Thesis
Franchet, L. Flexibilisation Policies and Labour Market Structures in France. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This doctoral research critically examines labour market flexibilisation policies in France, challenging the mainstream narrative that links flexibilisation with economic growth and reduced unemployment. Adopting a class relational perspective, it re... Read More about Flexibilisation Policies and Labour Market Structures in France.

Exploitation and Global Value Chains (2023)
Book Chapter
Selwyn, B., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Baglioni, E., Miyamura, S., & Pattenden, J. (2023). Exploitation and Global Value Chains. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (125-135). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00018

Concerns about exploitation in global supply chains are increasingly central to public and academic agendas. These issues have been investigated over the last 15 years from global value chain and global production network perspectives (henceforth 'ch... Read More about Exploitation and Global Value Chains.

Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States (2023)
Thesis
Qazi, S. Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation charts a novel path in urban political economy by tracing the profits and the process of turnover of property developers in the United States. I refer to these developers as realtor’s capital and argue for treating them as a peculia... Read More about Realtor’s Capital: The Political Economy of Property Developers in the United States.

Exploitation and Labour Regimes: Production, Circulation, Social Reproduction, Ecology (2022)
Book Chapter
Baglioni, E., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Miyamura, S., Pattenden, J., & Selwyn, B. (2022). Exploitation and Labour Regimes: Production, Circulation, Social Reproduction, Ecology. In E. Baglioni, L. Campling, N. M. Coe, & A. Smith (Eds.), Labour Regimes and Global Production (81-100). Agenda Publishing

Turbulence ahead: labour and struggles in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in India (2021)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (2021). Turbulence ahead: labour and struggles in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1894415

One year into the Covid-19 pandemic, India is in the midst of a struggle over its future economic and social relations. During this period, the Indian state has pursued policies that have further intensified labour exploitation and widened inequality... Read More about Turbulence ahead: labour and struggles in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.

Understanding Labour Relations and Struggles in India through Marx’s Method (2021)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2021). Understanding Labour Relations and Struggles in India through Marx’s Method. In A. Mezzadri (Ed.), Marx in the Field. Anthem Press

Are We All Rational, Optimising Agents? (2020)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2020). Are We All Rational, Optimising Agents?. In K. Deane, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan

Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts (2018)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2018). Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts. In H. Peter (Ed.), An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112923

The emerging literature on institutional functionalism opens opportunities for historically and socially sensitive analysis of institutions, especially if it is complemented by a material understanding of institutions and their location within the wi... Read More about Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts.

Class Dynamics of Development (2017)
Book
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Miyamura, S., & Selwyn, B. (Eds.). (2017). Class Dynamics of Development. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315187501

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a transdisciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and... Read More about Class Dynamics of Development.

Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India (2017)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2017). Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India. In J. Pattenden, L. Campling, S. Miyamura, & B. Selwyn (Eds.), Class Dynamics of Development (177-197). Routledge

Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note (2017)
Book Chapter
Campling, L., Miyamura, S., Pattenden, J., & Selwyn, B. (2017). Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note. In Class Dynamics of Development (1-23). Routledge

This article argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. Class is conceived as arising out of exploitative social relations of production, but is formulat... Read More about Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note.

Class, gender and the sweatshop: on the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation (2017)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2017). Class, gender and the sweatshop: on the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation. In J. Pattenden, L. Campling, S. Miyamura, & B. Selwyn (Eds.), Class Dynamics of Development. Routledge

Rethinking Labour Market Institutions in Indian Industry: Forms, Functions and Socio-historical Contexts (2016)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (in press). Rethinking Labour Market Institutions in Indian Industry: Forms, Functions and Socio-historical Contexts. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(6), 1262-1284. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1192608

The emerging literature on institutional functionalism opens opportunities for historically- and socially-sensitive analysis of institutions, especially if it is complemented by a material understanding of institutions and their location within the w... Read More about Rethinking Labour Market Institutions in Indian Industry: Forms, Functions and Socio-historical Contexts.

Class dynamics of development (2016)
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Class dynamics of development. London

Class Dynamics of Development: A Methodological Note (2016)
Journal Article
Campling, L., Miyamura, S., Pattenden, J., & Selwyn, B. (in press). Class Dynamics of Development: A Methodological Note. Third World Quarterly, 37(10), 1745-1767. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1200440

This article argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. Class is conceived as arising out of exploitative social relations of production, but is formulat... Read More about Class Dynamics of Development: A Methodological Note.

Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India (2016)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (in press). Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India. Third World Quarterly, 37(10), 1921-1941. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1198228

It is often claimed that industrial restructuring leads to diminished roles for trade unionism and other forms of labour organisations by informalising employment and relocating production. Drawing on selected case studies from long term fieldwork in... Read More about Diverse trajectories of industrial restructuring and labour organising in India.

Book review of Rebels from the mud houses: Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar, by George J. Kunnath (2015)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (2015). Book review of Rebels from the mud houses: Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar, by George J. Kunnath. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 53(3), 345-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2015.1044591

Political and Institutional Foundations of Class Compromise: Book Review of Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia by Emmanuel Teitelbaum (2015)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (2015). Political and Institutional Foundations of Class Compromise: Book Review of Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia by Emmanuel Teitelbaum. Economic and political weekly, 50(6), 30-32

Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and the Meanings and Possibilities of Social Transformation (2014)
Journal Article
Selwyn, B., & Miyamura, S. (2014). Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and the Meanings and Possibilities of Social Transformation. New Political Economy, 19(5), 639-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.844117

Marx and Polanyi both held that socialism, in one form or another, was a preferable and possible alternative to capitalism. Their ideas are seen to offer theoretical tools to understand the tensions and contradictions of capitalism, and to inform way... Read More about Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and the Meanings and Possibilities of Social Transformation.

Emerging Consensus on Labour Market Institutions and Implications for Developing Countries: From the Debates in India (2012)
Journal Article
Miyamura, S. (2012). Emerging Consensus on Labour Market Institutions and Implications for Developing Countries: From the Debates in India. Forum for Social Economics, 41(1), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12143-011-9099-4

This paper makes a critical intervention to on-going theoretical and policy debates in the economic analysis of labour market institutions (LMIs) in the context of recent debates in India. It focuses on the internal inconsistency of mainstream econom... Read More about Emerging Consensus on Labour Market Institutions and Implications for Developing Countries: From the Debates in India.