The Class Strikes Back examines case studies of twenty-first-century workers' struggles from both the Global North and South, highlighting the stories of workers fighting to organize and join democratic and independent unions.
Dario Azzellini, Ph.D. (1967), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, is visiting scholar at Murphy Institute/CUNY. He has published monographs, edited books and articles on social movements, social transformation, labour and migration studies, and Latin American Studies.
Michael G. Kraft, Ph.D. (2004), Vienna University of Economics, is a lecturer on social movements and economic and social transformations. He has published on heterodox economics and neoliberalism, social struggles and workers' self-management in Ex-Yugoslavia.
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1 Introduction: A Return to the Shop Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal Capitalism
Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft
2 Workers' Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations
Mithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar
3 Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the Mountain
Luke Sinwell
4 Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden Country
Antonios Broumas, Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Haritakis
5 Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy - Labour Struggles in Venezuela
Dario Azzellini
6 Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory Workers
Kari Lydersen
7 The Egyptian Workers' Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers' Strike to Social Uprising
Chiara Milan
9 Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers' Movement in Colombia
Carlos Olaya
10 A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon Cinema
Hansi Oostinga
11 New Workers' Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and Limits
Demet S. Dinler
12 Recovered Imaginaries: Workers' Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in Indonesia
Felix Hauf
13 The Revolution in Logistics
Anna Curcio
14 Sweat and Detergent not Bread and Roses: Behind the Shiny Surface of London's Financial Industry, Latin Cleaners Struggle for Dignity
Elmar Wigand
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