Big changes in the global economy and world politics have put new questions on the table for labour movements around the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizing and government cutbacks? Is labour rising from the ashes? Focusing upon recent developments in the United States, this volume sets these decisive questions about labour against a global backdrop, connecting and contrasting the new American scene to recent developments abroad - from Mexico to Asia, from Canada to Eastern Europe. It provides analysis of the key issues being debated by labour scholars and activists: the changing composition of the international working class; patterns of work under contemporary capitalism; the relationship of race and gender to class; the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labour militancy; and the strategic options available to the labour movement in today's conditions. Topics covered include the changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labor militancy, and the strategic options available to the labor movement today. (Verlagstext)
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Part 1: Labor and Class in a Changing World
LABOR, CLASS, AND STATE IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Ellen Meiksins Wood
TALKING ABOUT WORK by Doug Henwood
SAME AS IT EVER WAS? THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS by Peter Meiksins
ON GENDER AND CLASS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY by Johanna Brenner
Part 2: The American Scene: Prospects and Problems
AMERICAN LABOR: A MOVEMENT AGAIN? by Kim Moody
ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED: WILL PROMISES BECOME PRACTICES? by Fernando Gapasin
RACE AND LABOR ORGANIZTION IN THE UNITED STATES by Michael Goldfield
CLASS, COMMUNITY, AND EMPIRE: TOWARD AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRATEGY FOR LABOR by Eric Mann
LABOR EDUCATION IN THE MAELSTROM OF CLASS STRUGGLE by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Part 3: A World to Win?
WORKER INSURGENCY, RURAL REVOLT, AND THE CRISIS OF THE MEXICAN REGIME by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
COMMUNISTS AND WORKERS IN EX-COMMUNIST EUROPE by Peter Gowan
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: IMPASSE OR MODEL? by Gregory Albo and Chris Roberts
THE ICFTU AND THE POLITICS OF COMPROMISE by Gerard Greenfield
NOTES ON LABOR AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: STARTING OVER? by Sam Gindin
Contents
Part 1: Labor and Class in a Changing World
LABOR, CLASS, AND STATE IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Ellen Meiksins Wood
TALKING ABOUT WORK by Doug Henwood
SAME AS IT EVER WAS? THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS by Peter Meiksins
ON GENDER AND CLASS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY by Johanna Brenner
Part 2: The American Scene: Prospects and Problems
AMERICAN LABOR: A MOVEMENT AGAIN? by Kim Moody
ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED: WILL PROMISES BECOME PRACTICES? by Fernando Gapasin
RACE AND LABOR ORGANIZTION IN THE UNITED STATES by Michael Goldfield
CLASS, COMMUNITY, AND EMPIRE: TOWARD AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRATEGY FOR LABOR by Eric Mann
LABOR EDUCATION IN THE MAELSTROM OF CLASS STRUGGLE by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Part 3: A World to Win?
WORKER INSURGENCY, RURAL REVOLT, AND THE CRISIS OF THE MEXICAN REGIME by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
COMMUNISTS AND WORKERS IN EX-COMMUNIST EUROPE by Peter Gowan
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: IMPASSE OR MODEL? by Gregory Albo and Chris Roberts
THE ICFTU AND THE POLITICS OF COMPROMISE by Gerard Greenfield
NOTES ON LABOR AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: STARTING OVER? by Sam Gindin