The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century
by Dario Azzellini
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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 show more independent unions that are fundamentally opposed to bureaucratic leadership, compromise, and concessions. Specific case studies dealing with both the Global South and Global North assess the context of local histories and the spatially and temporally located balance of power, while embedding the struggle in a broader picture of resistance and the fight for emancipation. Contributors are: Anne Alexander, Dario Azzellini, Mostafa Bassiouny, Antonios Broumas, Anna Curcio, Demet S. Dinler, Kostas Haritakis, Felix Hauf, Elias Ioakimoglou, Mithilesh Kumar, Kari Lydersen, Chiara Milan, Carlos Olaya, Hansi Oostinga, Ranabir Samaddar, Luke Sinwell, Elmar Wigand. show lessTags
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Dario Azzellini (Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Ph.D. in Sociology, 2012, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He has published monographs, edited volumes, articles and documentaries on Latin show more America, workers' control and social movements, including An Alternative Labour History (Zed Books, 2015) and They Can't Represent Us! (With Marina Sitrin, Verso, 2014) show less
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Historical Materialism (150)
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- History, Economics, Nonfiction
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- 331.88 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics Labor unions, labor-management bargaining and disputes Labor unions (Trade unions)
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- HD4855 .C53 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class
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