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  • Southern Insurgency

    The Coming of the Global Working Class

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solidarity Unionism

    Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below

    by Staughton Lynd ...
    Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor. Drawing deeply on Staughton Lynd's experiences as a labor lawyer and activist in Youngstown, OH, and on his profound understanding of the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Solidarity Unionism helps us begin to put not only movement but also vision back into the labor movement.While many ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migration as Economic Imperialism

    How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances that migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national development for poor and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Organizing Insurgency

    Workers' Movements in the Global South

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism.Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and ... Read more

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  • New Forms of Worker Organization

    The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

    Edited by Immanuel Ness ...
    Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers’ interests.As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choke Points

    Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain

    Edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks, warehouses and logistics centres to keep their goods moving.This is the global supply chain, and, if the chain is broken, capitalism grinds to a halt. This book looks at case studies across the world to uncover ... Read more

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  • Urban Revolt

    State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South

    Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Immanuel Ness, Luke Sinwell ...
    How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ours to Master and to Own

    Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present

    Edited by Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness ...
    From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions,fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creatinginstitutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Withspecific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, thispathbreaking volume ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Platform Labour and Global Logistics

    A Research Companion

    Edited by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics
    Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a consequence of the concentrated application of neoliberalism since the 1980s, as capitalism is converting standardised labour markets in the developed Global North into contingent and informal labour.Platform Labour and Global ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

    Edited by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However, as platform and automated service work has grown, there remains a chasm in understanding the key aspects of digital labour.This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical, and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed

    Labor Conflicts During the 1990's

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
    This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's. Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in the political mobilization of the jobless to expand unemployment insurance and lessen the threat of lower wages, reduced union density, and weaker bargaining positions for unions. Despite these advantages, trade unions ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism

    Edited by Zak Cope, Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage in foreign intervention and "just war" because they feel a responsibility toward the international community? Or are these actions rationalizations for the pursuit of commercial, industrial, financial, and military ... Read more

    $147.59 USD