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Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance

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Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding

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Employment and rights in work, in common with other subjects investigated in this book, have barely registered in the academic literature on peacebuilding. Moreover, agencies and practitioners have only recognised the relevance of employment issues because of the social damage caused by the neoliberal economy of peacebuilding, not least in Iraq where the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer deformed the economic order contrary to the laws of occupation, and half the labour force was thrown out of work. The epigraph quoted above (on the otherwise completely blank webpage of the international Iraq reconstruction programme) testifies to a pervasive prejudice.

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    Michael Pugh (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies), Neil Cooper (Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security) & Mandy Turner (Lecturer in Conflict Resolution) (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies),  (Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security) &  (Lecturer in Conflict Resolution)

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Pugh, M. (2008). Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance. In: Pugh, M., Cooper, N., Turner, M. (eds) Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_9

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