New Forms of Worker Organization
The 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
About This Book
Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers' interests.
As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of syndicalism and autonomismâa resurgence of self-directed action that augurs 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.
Contributors include Au Loong-Yu, Bai Ruixue, Shawn Hattingh, Piotr Bizyukov, Irina Olimpieva, Genese M. Sodikoff, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Bursztyn, Gabriel Kuhn, Erik Forman, Steven Manicastri, Arup Kumar Sen, Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, Meredith Burgmann, and Jack Kirkpatrick.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword Staughton Lynd
- Introduction New Forms of Worker Organization
- I. Autonomist Unions in Europe and Asia
- II. Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global South
- III. Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global North
- Editor and Contributors
- Notes
- Index
- About PM Press
- Friends PM Press