New forms of worker organizationthe syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism
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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.
. — Oakland : PM Press, 2014.
xii, 319 p. 23 cm
Statement of responsibility from cover.
Introduction: New forms of worker organization / Autonomist unions in Europe and Asia. Operaismo revisited: Italy's state-capitalist assault on workers and the rise of COBAs / Autonomous workers' struggles in contemporary China / Collective labor protest in contemporary Russia / 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 / Exploding anger: workers' struggles and self-organization in South Africa's mining industry / Neoliberal conservation and worker-peasant autonomism in Madagascar / Sintracarbón: on the path to revolutionary labor unionism and politics in Colombia / The formation of a new independent democratic union in Argentina: the Subte Transport Workers Union / Organizing autonomy and radical unionism in the global north. Syndicalism in Sweden: a hundred years of the SAC / Doing without the boss: control experiments in Australia in the 1970s / Revolt in fast food nation: the wobblies take on Jimmy John's / The IWW Cleaners Branch Union in the United Kingdom / Against bureaucratic unions: U.S. working-class insurgency and capital's counteroffensive / Immanuel Ness -- Steven Manicastri -- Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue -- Piotr Bizyuko and Irina Olimpieva -- Arup Kumar Sen -- Shawn Hattingh -- Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Aviva Chomsky -- Darío Bursztyn -- Gabriel Kuhn -- Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, and Meredith Burgmann -- Erik Forman -- Jack Kirkpatrick -- Immanuel Ness.
