Class Strikes Back, The (Historical Materialism): Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century: 150 (Historical Materialism, 150) - Softcover

Micheal G. Kraft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608460169 ISBN 13: 9781608460168

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2019

Synopsis

The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of social and economic marginalisation. The essays in the collection demonstrate the dramatic growth of syndicalist and autonomist formations and argue for their historical necessity. They show how workers seek to form and join democratic and independent unions that are fundamentally opposed to bureaucratic leadership, compromise, and concessions. Specific case studies dealing with both the Global South and Global North assess the context of local histories and the spatially and temporally located balance of power, while embedding the struggle in a broader picture of resistance and the fight for emancipation.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1608460169
• ISBN 13: 9781608460168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 321