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Kumar, Ashok (2024) When monopsony power wanes - part two: subjective agency. Historical Materialism , pp. 1-31. ISSN 1465-4466.

Kumar, Ashok (2024) When monopsony power wanes - part one: material conditions. Historical Materialism , pp. 1-42. ISSN 1465-4466.

Knox, R. and Kumar, Ashok (2023) Reexamining race and Capitalism in the Marxist tradition – editorial introduction. Historical Materialism 31 (2), pp. 25-48. ISSN 1465-4466.

Iliopoulos, P.T. and Galanis, G. and Kumar, Ashok and Popoyan, L. (2022) Sectoral market power in global production: a theoretical and observational study. Advances in Complex Systems 25 (02n03), ISSN 0219-5259.

Galanis, G. and Kumar, Ashok (2021) A dynamic model of global value network governance. Environment and Planning A 53 (1), pp. 53-72. ISSN 0308-518X.

Kumar, Ashok (2019) A race from the bottom? Lessons from a workers' struggle at a Bangalore warehouse. Competition & Change 23 (4), pp. 346-377. ISSN 1024-5294.

Kumar, Ashok (2019) Oligopolistic suppliers, symbiotic value chains and workers’ bargaining power: labor contestation in South China at an ascendant global footwear firm. Global Networks 19 (3), pp. 394-422. ISSN 1470-2266.

Kumar, Ashok and Gebrial, D. and Elliott-Cooper, A. and Iyer, S. (2018) Marxist interventions into contemporary debates. Historical Materialism 26 (2), pp. 3-20. ISSN 1465-4466.

Tilley, L. and Kumar, Ashok and Cowan, T. (2017) Introduction - Enclosures and discontents: Primitive accumulation and resistance under globalised capital. City 21 (3-4), pp. 420-427. ISSN 1360-4813.

Gebrial, D. and Kumar, Ashok (2016) Atoning for the past. Economic and Political Weekly 51 (10), ISSN 0012-9976.

Kumar, Ashok (2015) Global workers’ rights through Capitalist institutions? Historical Materialism 23 (3), pp. 215-227. ISSN 1465-4466.

Kumar, Ashok and Mahoney, J. (2014) Stitching together: how workers are hemming down transnational capital in the hyper-global apparel industry. WorkingUSA 17 (2), pp. 187-210. ISSN 1089-7011.

Kumar, Ashok (2014) Interwoven threads: building a labour countermovement in Bangalore's export-oriented garment industry. City 18 (6), pp. 789-807. ISSN 1360-4813.

Elliott-Cooper, A. and Murrey, A. and Kumar, Ashok and Younis, M. (2014) Labour and resistance across global spaces: introduction. City 18 (6), pp. 771-775. ISSN 1360-4813.

Book Review

Featherstone, D. and Kumar, Ashok and Zhang, A.Y. and Fu, W. and Fan Lim, K. (2021) Book review symposium: On Shifting Foundations. [Book Review] (In Press)

Kumar, Ashok (2014) Review: Securing the security. [Book Review]

Editorial/Introduction

Kumar, Ashok and Elliott-Cooper, A. and Iyer, S. and Gebrial, D. (2018) An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics. [Editorial/Introduction]

Tilley, Lisa and Kumar, Ashok and Cowan, T. (2017) Enclosures and discontents: primitive accumulation and resistance under global capital. [Editorial/Introduction]

Book Section

Kumar, Ashok (2020) Essential workers. In: Bradshaw, A. and Hietanen, J. (eds.) The Dictionary of Coronavirus Culture. London, UK: Repeater/Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781913462437. (In Press)

Kumar, Ashok (2020) Global Capitalism requires a global Socialist strategy. In: Blakeley, G. (ed.) Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era. Verso. ISBN 9781839761331. (In Press)

Tilley, L. and Kumar, Ashok and Cowan, T. (2018) Introduction - Enclosures and discontents: primitive accumulation and resistance under globalised capital. In: Tilley, L. and Kumar, Ashok and Cowan, T. (eds.) Primitive Accumulation, Global Capitalism, and Resistance: Enclosures and Discontents. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780815381754. (In Press)

Kumar, Ashok (2018) Maggots in the rotting apple: on the Neohausmanisation of Bangalore. In: Tripathi, V.K. (ed.) Advances in Urban Studies in India. R.K. Books. ISBN 9789382847922.

Kumar, Ashok (2017) Urbanization. In: Turner, B.S. and Kyung-Sup, C. and Epstein, C.F. and Kivisto, P. and Outhwaite, W. and Ryan, J.M. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley. ISBN 9781118430873.

Kumar, Ashok (2015) Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance. In: Lee, J.H.X. (ed.) Chinese Americans: A History & Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, U.S.: ABC-Clio, pp. 176-177. ISBN 9781610695497.

Kumar, Ashok (2015) International Ladies' Garments Workers’ Union. In: Lee, J.H.X. (ed.) Chinese Americans: A History & Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, U.S.: ABC-Clio, p. 206. ISBN 9781610695497.

Kumar, Ashok (2012) Wisconsin is global: the shape of things to come. In: Buhle, M.J. and Buhle, P. (eds.) It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest. New York, U.S.: Verso Books, pp. 161-172. ISBN 9781844678881.

Kumar, Ashok (2011) Achievements and limitations of the UK student movement. In: Bailey, M. and Freedman, D. (eds.) The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance. London, UK: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745331928.

Kumar, Ashok (2011) Past and present. In: Palmieri, T. and Solomon, C. (eds.) Springtime: The New Student Rebellions. Verso Books, pp. 27-28. ISBN 9781844677405.

Monograph

Iliopoulos, P. and Galanis, G. and Kumar, Ashok and Popoyan, L. (2021) The power of sectoral geographical centrality in global production. Working Paper. Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Iliopoulos, Panagiotis and Galanis, G. and Kumar, Ashok and Popoyan, L. (2020) Network configuration as a measure of power in global production networks. Working Paper. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

Kumar, Ashok and Galanis, G. (2018) A dynamic spatial model of global governance structures. Working Paper. Post-Keynesian Economics Society.

Book

Kumar, Ashok (2019) Monopsony Capitalism: power and production in the twilight of the sweatshop age. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108764810. (In Press)

Tilley, L. and Kumar, Ashok and Cowan, T., eds. (2018) Primitive accumulation, global capitalism, and resistance: enclosures and discontents. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780815381754. (In Press)