The Class Strikes Back
Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry
Dario Azzellini editor Michael G Kraft editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Published:28th Mar '19
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The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of social and economic marginalisation. The essays in the collection demonstrate the dramatic growth of syndicalist and autonomist formations and argue for their historical necessity. They show how workers seek to form and join democratic and independent unions that are fundamentally opposed to bureaucratic leadership, compromise, and concessions
”The path through decades of working class defeat is much discussed but little studied. Azzellini and Kraft's book The Class Strikes Back seeks to change that [...] Everyone involved in and studying working class self-organizing needs to not only read this book but use it as a model for continuing this long overdue work.”
—Robert Ovetz, Journal of Labor and Society
“By offering a wealth of examples of workers’ autonomy in times of neoliberalism, ranging from manufacturing to logistics, and with an emphasis on migrants and the precariat, this volume rekindles faith in the transformative power of collective mobilization and worker solidarity in the twenty-first century.”
—Nico Pizzolato, Studies in Working-Class History
ISBN: 9781608460168
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321 pages