Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - Brossura

Ness, Immanuel

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ISBN 10: 0745335993 ISBN 13: 9780745335995

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2015

Riassunto

Even as labor in the developed world seems to be in retreat, industrial struggle continues elsewhere—and with particular force in the Global South. In Southern Insurgency, Immanuel Ness provides a thorough and expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China, India, and South Africa. In each case, he considers the broader historical forces in play, such as the effects of imperialism, the decline of the international union movement, class struggle, and the growing reserve of available labor. He then narrows his focus in each case on the specifics of the current grassroots insurgency: the militancy of miners in South Africa, new labor organizations in India, and the rise of worker insurgencies in China.
 
The product of extensive firsthand field research, Southern Insurgency paints a picture of the new industrial proletariat in the Global South—a group that lives a precarious, frightening existence yet at the same time offers hope for new approaches to solidarity and the anti-capitalist struggle.

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Recensione:

"The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle" - Sushovan Dhar, New Trade Union Initiative, India

"Offers insights on global labour struggles in an era when familiar unions seem exhausted, or at least too weak to make a concerted effort - with concrete examples of workers forming independent unions in the Global South" - Paul Buhle, historian and author

"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South" - Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English ""'Seminal and distinctive'"" - Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal

"Richly reports a qualitatively different practice evolving in India, China, and South Africa. It is horizontal rather than vertical. At this living moment all over our globe, workers are reaching out hands, first to their workmates, then to other workers everywhere" - Staughton Lynd, historian, author, activist

"Provides the most crucial case studies of alternative worker organising in the major centres of industrial production in China, India, and South Africa - where workers recognise their power and act to end exploitation" - May Wong, Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong

"Tells us how democratic forms of worker organisation can overcome the limitations of conventional labour unions and challenge global capitalist exploitation" - Lee Chun Wing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"Illuminates the most important questions of our time: can the democratic and transformative currents which inspired the movements of the past re-emerge today?" - Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate Center

"Provides dramatic case studies of worker resistance to corporate exploitation and state violence, through the formation of militant organisations in factories and within their communities" - Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided

"This book will throw challenges to the conventional economics of collective bargaining" - Debdas Banerjee, author of Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of Bihar

"Vividly describes what workers in India, China, and South Africa have done to make their unions more effective. Let's hope that these compelling case studies of rank-and-file struggle and bottom-up change lead to more of the same where it's needed the most" - Steve Early, journalist, author, labour movement activist

"Raises important and interesting questions about the future of global labour" - Dan La Botz, New Politics

"An ambitious book that is impossible to ignore" - Z Magazine

"A welcome addition to the expanding field of publications critiquing the effects of globalisation from a Marxist perspective" - Labour and Industry

"In [this book], Ness delivers one of the most insightful writings on [international relations] coming from outside of standard scholarship" - Anthropology of Work Review

L'autore:

Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at the City University of New York.

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745335993
• ISBN 13: 9780745335995
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240