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Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Immanuel Ness
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Hardback. Series: Wildcat. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFSC; JHBL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play - the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labour. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China, the new labour organisations in India, and the militancy of the miners in South Africa. This is a study about the nature of the new industrial worker in the Global South; about people living a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle.
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Wildcat
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745336008
SKU
V9780745336008
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Ref
99-50
About Immanuel Ness
Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.
Reviews for Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
'This book will throw challenges to the conventional economics of collective bargaining'
Debdas Banerjee, Author: Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of Bihar '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 and syndicated columnist '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 '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 '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 '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 'Seminal and distinctive'
Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South'
Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English '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 '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.
Debdas Banerjee, Author: Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of Bihar '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 and syndicated columnist '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 '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 '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 '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 'Seminal and distinctive'
Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South'
Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English '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 '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.