Where are the unions? : workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe /: workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. (2017)
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- Title:
- Where are the unions? : workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe /: workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Where are the unions? : workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Sian Lazar.
- Editors:
- Lazar, Sian
- Contents:
- Introduction - Sian Lazar Part I: Labour movements, society and the state1. The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organisation and politics - Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny 2. From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers’ union in Bolivia - Thomas Grisaffi 3. The labour union movement and ‘alternative’ culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship - Mohamed-Salah Omri Part II: Identity and precarity4. Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy - Irene Peano 5. The Spanish crisis: from complacency to unrest, from unrest to mobilisation - Salvador Martí i Puig and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi 6. What are the possible strategies for the emergence of a democratic and revolutionary labour movement in Lebanon? - Walid Daou 7. 'To struggle is also to teach': how can teachers and teaching unions further the global fight for another world? - Mary Compton Part III: Rank and file challenges to traditional unionism8. ‘Ungrievable’ labour and ‘unruly’ politics: NGOS, workers’ rights, and the 2013–2014 protests in Brazil - Lucy McMahon 9. The experience of grassroots syndicalism in Greece: workplace restructuring and the role of traditional trade unions in the tertiary sector - Aris Anagnostopoulos and Angelos Evangelinidis 10. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina - Virginia Manzano 11.Introduction - Sian Lazar Part I: Labour movements, society and the state1. The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organisation and politics - Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny 2. From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers’ union in Bolivia - Thomas Grisaffi 3. The labour union movement and ‘alternative’ culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship - Mohamed-Salah Omri Part II: Identity and precarity4. Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy - Irene Peano 5. The Spanish crisis: from complacency to unrest, from unrest to mobilisation - Salvador Martí i Puig and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi 6. What are the possible strategies for the emergence of a democratic and revolutionary labour movement in Lebanon? - Walid Daou 7. 'To struggle is also to teach': how can teachers and teaching unions further the global fight for another world? - Mary Compton Part III: Rank and file challenges to traditional unionism8. ‘Ungrievable’ labour and ‘unruly’ politics: NGOS, workers’ rights, and the 2013–2014 protests in Brazil - Lucy McMahon 9. The experience of grassroots syndicalism in Greece: workplace restructuring and the role of traditional trade unions in the tertiary sector - Aris Anagnostopoulos and Angelos Evangelinidis 10. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina - Virginia Manzano 11. From invisible to invincible: the story of the 3 Cosas Campaign - Jason Moyer-Lee and Henry Chango Lopez Afterword: bringing manifestos back in? - Peter Waterman; … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Zed Books
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 322.44
Social movements
Labor unions - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781783609918
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781783609925
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