The Class Strikes Back
Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry
Published on 8. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
321 pages
978-1-60846-016-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 essays in the collection demonstrate the dramatic growth of syndicalist and autonomist formations and argue for their historical necessity. They show how workers seek to form and join democratic and independent unions that are fundamentally opposed to bureaucratic leadership, compromise, and concessions
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
457 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60846-016-8 (9781608460168)
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Persons
Dario Azzellini, Ph.D. (1967), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, is visiting scholar at Murphy Institute/CUNY. He has published monographs, edited books and articles on social movements, social transformation, labour and migration studies, and Latin American Studies.
Michael G. Kraft, Ph.D. (2004), Vienna University of Economics, is a lecturer on social movements and economic and social transformations. He has published on heterodox economics and neoliberalism, social struggles and workers' self-management in Ex-Yugoslavia.
Michael G. Kraft, Ph.D. (2004), Vienna University of Economics, is a lecturer on social movements and economic and social transformations. He has published on heterodox economics and neoliberalism, social struggles and workers' self-management in Ex-Yugoslavia.
Content
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
1 Introduction: A Return to the Shop Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal Capitalism
?Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft
Workers' Self-Organisation beyond and against Corporative Unions and the State
2 Workers' Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations
?Mithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar
3 Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the Mountain
?Luke Sinwell
4 Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden Country
?Antonios Broumas, Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Haritakis
5 Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy - Labour Struggles in Venezuela
?Dario Azzellini
Non-Corporate Unionism and Social Movements
6 Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory Workers
?Kari Lydersen
7 The Egyptian Workers' Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
?Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers' Strike to Social Uprising
?Chiara Milan
9 Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers' Movement in Colombia
?Carlos Olaya
10 A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon Cinema
?Hansi Oostinga
Renewed Forms of Struggle and Workers' Self-Management
11 New Workers' Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and Limits
?Demet S. Dinler
12 Recovered Imaginaries: Workers' Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in Indonesia
?Felix Hauf
13 The Revolution in Logistics
?Anna Curcio
14 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
Note on Contributors
1 Introduction: A Return to the Shop Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal Capitalism
?Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft
Workers' Self-Organisation beyond and against Corporative Unions and the State
2 Workers' Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations
?Mithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar
3 Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the Mountain
?Luke Sinwell
4 Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden Country
?Antonios Broumas, Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Haritakis
5 Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy - Labour Struggles in Venezuela
?Dario Azzellini
Non-Corporate Unionism and Social Movements
6 Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory Workers
?Kari Lydersen
7 The Egyptian Workers' Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
?Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers' Strike to Social Uprising
?Chiara Milan
9 Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers' Movement in Colombia
?Carlos Olaya
10 A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon Cinema
?Hansi Oostinga
Renewed Forms of Struggle and Workers' Self-Management
11 New Workers' Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and Limits
?Demet S. Dinler
12 Recovered Imaginaries: Workers' Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in Indonesia
?Felix Hauf
13 The Revolution in Logistics
?Anna Curcio
14 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