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It is the first and only MSc programme in the UK dedicated to Labour, Social Movements and Development.
This innovative new programme in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS offers students the opportunity to study labour conditions and relations, social movements of labour and their contributions to development processes and changes in the South. The MSc draws on the expertise of Department of Development Studies staff in labour, social movements and development in Latin America, Africa an
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23/03/2021
Amazon workers in Italy go on strike | DW | 22.03.2021 The coronavirus has fueled sky-high company profits but Amazon workers say they are being pushed to the limit. The first strike of its kind in Italy includes suppliers and delivery drivers.
21/03/2021
Antonio Gramsci and Farmers protest in India Delhi I was born and brought up in India and lived here till I was 27years old and had never heard of Antonio Gramsci neither at home nor at school or university my majors had been Sciences. I live in Italy since 2001. Looking at the life of Gramsci, being an Indian I cannot but observe the similarities b...
21/03/2021
Garment Workers Win $22 Billion in Historic Victory Against Wage Theft PayUp is one of the most successful labor rights campaigns in the fashion industry in modern times.
30/01/2021
'Finally some justice': court rules Shell Nigeria must pay for oil damage Nigerian farmers win claim for compensation in The Hague after 13-year battle
28/01/2021
Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever Tea pluckers say the household-goods giant failed to protect them from brutal and foreseeable attacks.
26/01/2021
Pandemic wipes out 3.57 lakh apparel jobs: study The coronavirus pandemic wiped out 3.57 lakh jobs in the garment industry in Bangladesh in 2020 as factories went for layoffs and closures because of the collapse in demand, a new study found.
26/01/2021
ILO: Uncertain and uneven recovery expected following unprecedented labour market crisis The latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 by the ILO, records massive damage to working time and income, with prospects for a recovery in 2021 slow, uneven and uncertain unless early improvements are supported by human-centred recovery policies.
12/01/2021
All at sea: half a million seafarers stranded by the pandemic – in pictures Up to 400,000 seafarers have been trapped on board cargo ships during the Covid pandemic. These are their photos