Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Southern Insurgency by Immanuel Ness A book on the nature of the new, precarious industrial worker in the Global South - highlighting experimentation, solidarity and struggle. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles.Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play - the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labour. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China, the new labour organisations in India, and the militancy of the miners in South Africa. This is a study about the nature of the new industrial worker in the Global South; about people living a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents List of Maps, Figures and TablesPreface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The New International Working ClassPart I: Capitalism and Imperialism2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector ConclusionNotesIndex Review 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 authorEssential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South -- Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR EnglishSeminal and distinctive -- Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India.Richly reports a qualitatively different practice evolving in India, China, and South Africa. It is horizontal rather than vertical. At this living moment all over our globe, workers are reaching out hands, first to their workmates, then to other workers everywhere -- Staughton Lynd, historian, author, activistProvides 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 KongTells us how democratic forms of worker organisation can overcome the limitations of conventional labour unions and challenge global capitalist exploitation -- Lee Chun Wing, Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityIlluminates 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 CenterProvides dramatic case studies of worker resistance to corporate exploitation and state violence, through the formation of militant organisations in factories and within their communities -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Author of Solidarity Divided and syndicated columnistThis book will throw challenges to the conventional economics of collective bargaining -- Debdas Banerjee, Author: Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of Bihar Review Quote "With the rise of a working class rooted in the global South comes worker militancy in the same geographies....Workers in the South are developing new forms of resistance, and are now an integral part of a global working class, under-appreciated developments brought to vivid life in Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class . This latest book by Ness is a needed corrective to the false idea that resignation to neoliberalism is universal, and the examples of militancy that he presents are not simply a necessary corrective but demonstrate that improvements are only possible with organized, self-directed actions. In a world more globalized then ever, workers of the world truly do need to unite--a global working class can only liberate itself through a global struggle." Details ISBN0745336000 Author Immanuel Ness Publisher Pluto Press Year 2015 ISBN-10 0745336000 ISBN-13 9780745336008 Format Hardcover Imprint Pluto Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 305.562091724 Subtitle The Coming of the Global Working Class Short Title SOUTHERN INSURGENCY Language English Media Book Residence Brooklyn, NY, US Affiliation Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA Series Wildcat Pages 240 UK Release Date 2015-10-20 Publication Date 2015-10-20 AU Release Date 2015-10-20 NZ Release Date 2015-10-20 Alternative 9780745335995 Illustrations 9 b&w figures, 3 b&w maps Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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ISBN-13: 9780745336008
Book Title: Southern Insurgency
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Southern Insurgency: the Coming of the Global Working Class
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Politics
Item Height: 215 mm
Item Weight: 416 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Immanuel Ness
Subject Area: Social Work, Social Organisations
Series: Wildcat
Item Width: 135 mm
Format: Hardcover
