Workers' inquiry and global class struggle: strategies, tactics,objectives

by Ovetz, Robert

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Full title :Workers' inquiry and global class struggle : strategies, tactics,objectives / edited by Robert Ovetz.

Summary

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below.0By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organisational forms and objectives. These workers' inquiries, from call centre workers to teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energising unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organisations.0In one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers' movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders, but are circulating internationally and disruptingthe global capitalist system as they do.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pluto Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (288 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0745340849, 0745340865, 9780745340845, 9780745340869, 9781786806451, 1786806452
oclc:on1201309722
LC Classification:HD4841
Dewey Decimal:331.09

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Robert Ovetz -- Part I: Transport and Logistics -- 1. Camioneros: The Argentine Truckers' Union that Can Paralyze the Country -- Dario Burszfyn -- 2. When Class Unionism Leads to Working-Class Recomposition: The Case of TUMTIS in Turkey -- Alpkan Birelma -- 3. Resisting Sexism and Racism in Italian Logistics Worker Organizing -- Anna Curcio -- Part II: Education, Call Centers, Cleaners, Platform Work, and Gamers -- 4. MakingThreats: Credible Strike Threats in the US, 2012-2016 -- Robert Ovetz

5. The Self-Organization of the Mexican Multitude Against Neoliberal State Terror: The CNTE Dissident Teachers' Movement Against the 2013 Education Reform -- Patrick Cuninghame -- 6. Notes from Below: A Brief Survey of Class Composition in the UK -- Callum Cant, Sai Englert, Lydia Hughes, Wendy Liu, Achille Marotta, Seth Wheeler, and Jamie Woodcock -- Part III: Manufacturing and Mining -- 7. Worker Organizing in China: Challenges and Opportunities -- Jenny Chan -- 8. Self-Organizing is Breathing Life into Workers' Struggles inSouth Africa -- Shawn Hattingh and Dr. Dale T. McKinley

9. Towards a Global Work…