Description: A book on the nature of the new, precarious industrial worker in the Global South - highlighting experimentation, solidarity and struggle.
Brief description: Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.
Review Quotes:
'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle' Sushovan Dhar, New Trade Union Initiative, India
'Offers insights on global labour struggles in an era when familiar unions seem exhausted, or at least too weak to make a concerted effort - with concrete examples of workers forming independent unions in the Global South' Paul Buhle, historian and author
'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South' Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English
'Provides the most crucial case studies of alternative worker organising in the major centres of industrial production in China, India, and South Africa - where workers recognise their power and act to end exploitation' May Wong, Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong
'Illuminates the most important questions of our time: can the democratic and transformative currents which inspired the movements of the past re-emerge today?' Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate Center