While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.
The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. Through original case studies, the book looks at the various shades of workers movements, analysing different forms of popular organisation as responses to new social and economic conditions, such as restructuring of work and new areas of investment.
Madhumita Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University, USA.
J?rg Nowak is a Marie Curie Researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Peter Birke is Researcher at the Sociological Research Institute G?ttingen (SOFI), at the University of G?ttingen, Germany. He has published more specifically on the global social movements after the 2009 financial and debt crisis. Birke is editor of the journal Social History Online.
How to analyse the wave of strikes occurring around the world in the early 21st century? What are their causes, forms, and results and what do they reveal about specific socioeconomic constellations? Is there potential for solidarity among workers in different world regions, based, for instance, on similar policies of informalisation? This volume is a perfect starting point for discussion. Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Professor of Sociology, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen
This book will certainly be a global reference in the studies on the new trends of workers' resistance struggles in the face of current forms of capitalist accumulation. It offers a fantastic panorama of strikes and other forms of workers fighting in a wide range of countries in all regions of the world. IlC›
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