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New forms of worker organization : the syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism / edited by Immanuel Ness ; foreword by Staughton Lynd.
- Title
- New forms of worker organization : the syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism / edited by Immanuel Ness ; foreword by Staughton Lynd.
- Publication
- Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2014]
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- Description
- xii, 319 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault throughout the world. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. The decline of labor unions has exposed workers throughout the world to capitalist absolutism, where trade unions are unable to defend workers’ interests. As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, rooted in the tradition of syndicalism and autonomism—and unions rooted in the tradition of self-directed action are auguring 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."--Publisher's website.
- Alternative Title
- Syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism
- Subject
- Note
- Statement of responsibility from cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: New forms of worker organization / Immanuel Ness -- Autonomist unions in Europe and Asia. Operaismo revisited: Italy's state-capitalist assault on workers and the rise of COBAs / Steven Manicastri -- Autonomous workers' struggles in contemporary China / Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue -- Collective labor protest in contemporary Russia / Piotr Bizyuko and Irina Olimpieva -- Organizing autonomy and radical unionism in the global south. The struggle for independent unions in India's industrial belts: domination, resistance, and the Maruti Suzuki autoworkers / Arup Kumar Sen -- Exploding anger: workers' struggles and self-organization in South Africa's mining industry / Shawn Hattingh -- Neoliberal conservation and worker-peasant autonomism in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Sintracarbón: on the path to revolutionary labor unionism and politics in Colombia / Aviva Chomsky -- The formation of a new independent democratic union in Argentina: the Subte Transport Workers Union / Darío Bursztyn -- Organizing autonomy and radical unionism in the global north. Syndicalism in Sweden: a hundred years of the SAC / Gabriel Kuhn -- Doing without the boss: control experiments in Australia in the 1970s / Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, and Meredith Burgmann -- Revolt in fast food nation: the wobblies take on Jimmy John's / Erik Forman -- The IWW Cleaners Branch Union in the United Kingdom / Jack Kirkpatrick -- Against bureaucratic unions: U.S. working-class insurgency and capital's counteroffensive / Immanuel Ness.
- ISBN
- 9781604869569
- 1604869569
- LCCN
- ^^2013956926
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library