The class strikes back : self-organised workers' struggles in the twenty-first century /

The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of social and economic marginalisation. The e...

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Other Authors: Azzellini, Dario, 1967- (Editor), Kraft, Michael Gerhard (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Historical materialism book series, Volume 150
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction: A Return to the Shop-Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal Capitalism / Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft
  • Workers' Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations / Mithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar
  • Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the Mountain / Luke Sinwell
  • Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden Country / Antonios Broumas , Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Charitakis
  • Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy - Labour Struggles in Venezuela / Dario Azzellini
  • Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory Workers / Kari Lydersen
  • The Egyptian Workers' Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-Revolution / Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers' Strike to Social Uprising / Chiara Milan
  • Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers' Movement in Colombia / Carlos Olaya
  • A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon Cinema / Hansi Oostinga
  • New Workers' Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and Limits / Demet Şahende Dinler
  • Recovered Imaginaries: Workers' Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in Indonesia / Felix Hauf
  • Italy: The Revolution in Logistics / Anna Curcio
  • Sweat and Detergent not Bread and Roses: Behind the Shiny Surface of London's Financial Industry, Latin Cleaners Struggle for Dignity / Elmar Wigand
  • References
  • Index.