Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle Strategies, Tactics, Objectives - Wildcat

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Publisher's Synopsis

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below.

By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organisational forms and objectives. These workers' inquiries, from call centre workers to teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energising unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organisations.

In one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers' movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do.

Book information

ISBN: 9780745340869
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 331.88
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224 .
Weight: 312g
Height: 135mm
Width: 214mm
Spine width: 28mm