Jamie McCallum

Student Fellow

Jamie McCallum is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation covers transnational labor struggles in North America, South Africa, and India, a longstanding interest stemming from his former work within trade unions. He works occasionally with the International Labour Organization and is currently a researcher within the Global Labour University. As a member of the board of directors of the Left Forum, he hopes radical thinking will someday mean radical social change.

Participating Years

2010–2011

Labor/Crisis/Protest

Labor processes and conditions of employment in almost all sectors of the economy and most of the world have been revolutionized over the last thirty years. Generally, the share of wages in gross domestic product has declined while the share taken by capital (finance in particular) has soared. The response (or lack of it) to these new conditions has been patchy, raising questions of the state of political consciousness and political subjectivity among affected populations. Where, many ask, is the outrage and why the lack of mass protest and mass movement?