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Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Lazar, Doctor Sian
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781783609895
Publisert
2017-03-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Vekt
332 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Redaktør
Lazar, Doctor Sian
Afterword by
Waterman Peter

Biographical note

Sian Lazar is a lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008) and the editor of The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (2013). She has conducted field research in Bolivia and Argentina, with a focus on collective politics and political subjectivity.

Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Lazar, Doctor Sian
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Lazar, Doctor Sian
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice. From the pink tide and Arab spring to Occupy and anti-austerity, the last twenty years have witnessed the birth of a new type of mass mobilisation. Where Are The Unions? compares, for the first time, the challenges faced by movements in Latin America, the Arab world and Europe. Workers’ strikes and protests were a critical part of these events, yet their role has been significantly underestimated in many of the subsequent narratives. This book focuses on the complex interactions between organised workers, the unemployed, self-employed, youth, students and the state, and critically assesses the concept of the ‘precariat’. With contributions from across four continents, this is the most comprehensive look at the global context of mass mobilisation in the twenty-first century.
Les mer
The first comprehensive comparison of the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements in Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of union involvement
Les mer
Introduction - Sian Lazar Part I: Labour movements, society and the state 1. The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organisation and politics - Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny 2. From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers’ union in Bolivia - Thomas Grisaffi 3. The labour union movement and ‘alternative’ culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship - Mohamed-Salah Omri Part II: Identity and precarity 4. Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy - Irene Peano 5. The Spanish crisis: from complacency to unrest, from unrest to mobilisation - Salvador Martí i Puig and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi 6. What are the possible strategies for the emergence of a democratic and revolutionary labour movement in Lebanon? - Walid Daou 7. 'To struggle is also to teach': how can teachers and teaching unions further the global fight for another world? - Mary Compton Part III: Rank and file challenges to traditional unionism 8. ‘Ungrievable’ labour and ‘unruly’ politics: NGOS, workers’ rights, and the 2013–2014 protests in Brazil - Lucy McMahon 9. The experience of grassroots syndicalism in Greece: workplace restructuring and the role of traditional trade unions in the tertiary sector - Aris Anagnostopoulos and Angelos Evangelinidis 10. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina - Virginia Manzano 11. From invisible to invincible: the story of the 3 Cosas Campaign - Jason Moyer-Lee and Henry Chango Lopez Afterword: bringing manifestos back in? - Peter Waterman
Les mer
This may be the single most important set of studies to come out of recent worldwide mobilisations. It tells us what the Left has to learn about labour if we are to take on the spectre of the populist Right.
Les mer
The first comprehensive comparison of the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements in Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of union involvement
Les mer
First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).

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The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice. From the pink tide and Arab spring to Occupy and anti-austerity, the last twenty years have witnessed the birth of a new type of mass mobilisation. Where Are The Unions? compares, for the first time, the challenges faced by movements in Latin America, the Arab world and Europe. Workers’ strikes and protests were a critical part of these events, yet their role has been significantly underestimated in many of the subsequent narratives. This book focuses on the complex interactions between organised workers, the unemployed, self-employed, youth, students and the state, and critically assesses the concept of the ‘precariat’. With contributions from across four continents, this is the most comprehensive look at the global context of mass mobilisation in the twenty-first century.
Les mer
The first comprehensive comparison of the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements in Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of union involvement
Les mer
Introduction - Sian Lazar Part I: Labour movements, society and the state 1. The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organisation and politics - Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny 2. From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers’ union in Bolivia - Thomas Grisaffi 3. The labour union movement and ‘alternative’ culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship - Mohamed-Salah Omri Part II: Identity and precarity 4. Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy - Irene Peano 5. The Spanish crisis: from complacency to unrest, from unrest to mobilisation - Salvador Martí i Puig and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi 6. What are the possible strategies for the emergence of a democratic and revolutionary labour movement in Lebanon? - Walid Daou 7. 'To struggle is also to teach': how can teachers and teaching unions further the global fight for another world? - Mary Compton Part III: Rank and file challenges to traditional unionism 8. ‘Ungrievable’ labour and ‘unruly’ politics: NGOS, workers’ rights, and the 2013–2014 protests in Brazil - Lucy McMahon 9. The experience of grassroots syndicalism in Greece: workplace restructuring and the role of traditional trade unions in the tertiary sector - Aris Anagnostopoulos and Angelos Evangelinidis 10. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina - Virginia Manzano 11. From invisible to invincible: the story of the 3 Cosas Campaign - Jason Moyer-Lee and Henry Chango Lopez Afterword: bringing manifestos back in? - Peter Waterman
Les mer
This may be the single most important set of studies to come out of recent worldwide mobilisations. It tells us what the Left has to learn about labour if we are to take on the spectre of the populist Right.
Les mer
The first comprehensive comparison of the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements in Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of union involvement
Les mer
First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783609895
Publisert
2017-03-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Vekt
332 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Redaktør
Lazar, Doctor Sian
Afterword by
Waterman Peter

Biographical note

Sian Lazar is a lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008) and the editor of The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (2013). She has conducted field research in Bolivia and Argentina, with a focus on collective politics and political subjectivity.

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