New forms of worker organization : the syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class struggle unionism / Immanuel Ness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ness, Immanuel, author.

Contributor:

Ness, Immanuel, editor, writer of introduction.

Lynd, Staughton, writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As bureaucratic labor unions are currently under assault throughout the world, most have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th century, when the working class was a militant force for change. As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, rooted in the tradition of syndicalism and autonomism-and unions rooted in the tradition of self-directed action are auguring a new period of class struggle throughout the world. In Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, workers are rejecting leaders and forming authen

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Staughton Lynd; Introduction New Forms of Worker Organization: Immanuel Ness; I. Autonomist Unions in Europe and Asia; Chapter 1 Operaismo Revisited: Italy's State-Capitalist Assault on Workers and the Rise of COBAs: Steven Manicastri; Chapter 2 Autonomous Workers' Struggles in Contemporary China: Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue; Chapter 3 Collective Labor Protest in Contemporary Russia: Piotr Bizyukov and Irina Olimpieva; II. Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global South

Chapter 4 The Struggle for Independent Unions in India's Industrial Belts: Domination, Resistance, and the Maruti Suzuki Autoworkers Arup Kumar SenChapter 5 Exploding Anger: Workers' Struggles and Self-Organization in South Africa's Mining Industry: Shawn Hattingh; Chapter 6 Neoliberal Conservation and Worker-Peasant Autonomism in Madagascar: Genese Marie Sodikoff; Chapter 7 Sintracarbón: On the Path to Revolutionary Labor Unionism and Politics in Colombia: Aviva Chomsky

Chapter 8 The Formation of a New Independent Democratic Union in Argentina: The Subte Transport Workers Union: Darío BursztynIII. Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global North; Chapter 9 Syndicalism in Sweden: A Hundred Years of the SAC: Gabriel Kuhn; Chapter 10 Doing without the Boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s: Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, and Meredith Burgmann; Chapter 11 Revolt in Fast Food Nation: The Wobblies Take on Jimmy John's: Erik Forman; Chapter 12 The IWW Cleaners Branch Union in the United Kingdom: Jack Kirkpatrick

Chapter 13 Against Bureaucratic Unions: U.S. Working-Class Insurgency and Capital's Counteroffensive: Immanuel NessEditor and Contributors; Notes; Index; About PM Press

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62963-023-3