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Author:   Dario N. Azzellini ,  Michael Kraft
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   150
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789004291461

ISBN 10:   9004291466
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   11 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Note on Contributors 1 Introduction: A Return to the Shop Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal Capitalism â Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft Workers' Self-Organisation beyond and against Corporative Unions and the State 2 Workers' Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations â Mithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar 3 Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the Mountain â Luke Sinwell 4 Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden Country â Antonios Broumas, Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Haritakis 5 Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy - Labour Struggles in Venezuela â Dario Azzellini Non-Corporate Unionism and Social Movements 6 Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory Workers â Kari Lydersen 7 The Egyptian Workers' Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-Revolution â Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers' Strike to Social Uprising â Chiara Milan 9 Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers' Movement in Colombia â Carlos Olaya 10 A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon Cinema â Hansi Oostinga Renewed Forms of Struggle and Workers' Self-Management 11 New Workers' Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and Limits â Demet S. Dinler 12 Recovered Imaginaries: Workers' Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in Indonesia â Felix Hauf 13 The Revolution in Logistics â Anna Curcio 14 Sweat and Detergent not Bread and Roses: Behind the Shiny Surface of London's Financial Industry, Latin Cleaners Struggle for Dignity â Elmar Wigand References Index

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Dario Azzellini, Ph.D. (1967), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, is visiting scholar at Murphy Institute/CUNY. He has published monographs, edited books and articles on social movements, social transformation, labour and migration studies, and Latin American Studies. Michael G. Kraft, Ph.D. (2004), Vienna University of Economics, is a lecturer on social movements and economic and social transformations. He has published on heterodox economics and neoliberalism, social struggles and workers' self-management in Ex-Yugoslavia.

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