New Forms of Worker Organization : The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

Immanuel Ness

ISBN 10: 1604869569 / ISBN 13: 9781604869569

Edité par PM Press Jul 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers interests.As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of syndicalism and autonomism a resurgence of self-directed action that augurs a new period of class struggle throughout the world. In Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, workers are rejecting leaders and forming authentic class-struggle unions rooted in sabotage, direct action, and striking to achieve concrete gains.This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North. The tangible evidence marshaled in this book serves as a handbook for understanding the formidable obstacles and concrete opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism, even as the unions of the old decline and disappear.Contributors include Au Loong-Yu, Bai Ruixue, Shawn Hattingh, Piotr Bizyukov, Irina Olimpieva, Genese M. Sodikoff, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Bursztyn, Gabriel Kuhn, Erik Forman, Steven Manicastri, Arup Kumar Sen, Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, Meredith Burgmann, and Jack Kirkpatrick.

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• Titre: New Forms of Worker Organization : The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
• Éditeur: PM Press Jul 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1604869569
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781604869569
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 239 L x 152 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 239 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 363 grammes

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Synopsis

Bureaucratic labour unions are under assault throughout the world. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. The decline of labour unions has exposed workers throughout the world to capitalist absolutism, and now many workers are rejecting leaders and forming unions rooted in direct action. This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.

À propos des auteurs

Immanuel Ness is a political economist who specializes in labor unions and professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is editor of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and author of numerous works including Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism. He was a worker and union organizer in the food, maintenance, and publishing industries.

Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. He was director of Freedom Schools in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. An early leader of the movement against the Vietnam War, he was blacklisted and unable to continue as an academic. He then became a lawyer, and in this capacity has assisted rank-and-file workers and prisoners for the past thirty years. He has written, edited, or coedited with his wife Alice Lynd more than a dozen books.