The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.
Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these ‘hard times’. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.
The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.
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A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
Introduction: Working-Class Resistance in Hard Times, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly
Resisting and Surviving Organised Politics: The Case of the London Housing Movement, Lisa Mckenzie
Contesting Austerity in Low Resistance Capitalist Contexts, Saori Shibata and David Bailey
Power of Labour and Logistics: Immigrant Struggles in Italy’s Logistics Industry, Rossana Cillo and Lucia Pradella
Resistance and Revolution: Working-Class Intransigence, The Libertarian Tradition, and the Catalan Crisis, Stuart Price
From Social Movement to Labour Protests: The Case of the Sans Papiers in France, Heather Connolly and Sylvie Contrepois
Beyond Water, Beyond Folk Politics? Lessons from Greece for an Irish Socialist Governmentality, Nicholas Kiersey
Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Confronting the Return of Austerity in Argentina? Adam Fishwick
E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised Workplace, Phoebe Moore
Conclusion: Towards Connecting the Diversity of Working-Class Resistance, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly
About the Contributors
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Austerity and Working-Class Resistance provides a fascinating and original account of the often denied practices of resistance, which at different spaces and times, within and outside Europe, have followed one of the most critical times of our modern history, including the economic, social, political and financial crises. It is also a riveting read, rich with fascinating human stories.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786603524
Publisert
2018-09-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232