Workers' movements and strikes in the twenty-first century a global perspective

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 Sou...

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Other Authors: Nowak, Jörg, 1973-, Dutta, Madhumita, Birke, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
Series:Transforming capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield International)
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the new upsurge of strikes in the early 21st century : tendencies, challenges and limits / Jörg Nowak, Peter Birke and Madhumita Dutta
  • Labour strikes in post-authoritarian Indonesia, 1998-2013 / Fahmi Panimbang and Abu Mufakhir
  • Space and strike diffusion in a decentralized authoritarian country : a study of the auto parts industry in South China / Deng Yunxue
  • Strikes in Vietnam / Mark Anner
  • Making sense of legality : everyday resistance and survival tactics by undocumented Indian female domestic workers in the United Arabic Emirates / Bindhulakshmi Pattadath
  • Against all odds : tracing the struggles of workers to form a union inside a special economic zone in Tamil Nadu, India / Madhumita Dutta
  • Mass strikes in the Brazilian construction sector between 2011 and 2014 / Jörg Nowak
  • Conflicts around subcontracted workers in Chile's copper mining sector / Antonio Aravena and Mauricio Muñoz
  • The United States : worker agency and innovation in the midst of crisis / Dave Kamper
  • Strike movements and popular class struggles in Burkina Faso / Bettina Engels
  • Mass strikes in Nigeria, 2000-2015 : struggling against neoliberal hegemony / Femi Aborisade and Drew Povey
  • Strikes, bread riots and blockades : Mozambican workers and communities in resistance / Judith Marshall
  • The strike wave of 2015 in Germany / Peter Birke
  • The politics of striking : on the shifting dynamics of workers' struggles in Britain / Alexander Gallas
  • Austerity and labour resistance: the shifting shape of strikes in Spain / Nikolai Huke and Olaf Tietje
  • Gender and precarity in crisis-ridden Greece / Anna Koumandaraki and Athanasios Tsakiris
  • The strike movement and labour protests in Russia / ELENA GERASIMOVA, PETR BIZYUKOV.