Southern insurgency : the coming of the global working class / Immanuel Ness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ness, Immanuel, author.

Contributor:

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Wildcat (Organization)

Wildcat: Workers' Movements and Global Capitalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions.

Working class.

Working class--Developing countries.

Discrimination.

Developing countries.

Working class--South Africa.

South Africa.

Working class--India.

India.

Working class--China.

China.

Race relations.

Discrimination--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Summary:

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organization is developing in countries it too often ignores. 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. Southern Insurgency will lead the way in examining these organizations in the contemporary era. 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 labor. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: the militancy of the miners in South Africa, the new labor organizations in India and export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China. A result of intensive, dedicated firsthand research, at the heart of Southern Insurgency is a study of the nature of the new industrial proletariat in the Global South - a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Capitalism and imperialism. The industrial proletariat of the global south

Migration and the reserve army of labor

Case studies. India : neoliberal industrialization, class formation, and mobilization

China : state capitalism, foreign investment, and worker insurgency

South Africa : post-apartheid labor militancy in the mining sector.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780745335995

9780745336008

0745336000

0745335993

OCLC:

932088534

Publisher Number:

99968544138