Where Are The Unions? (eBook)

lt;p>Sian Lazar is a lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008) and the editor of The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (2013). She has conducted field research in Bolivia and Argentina, with a focus on collective politics and political subjectivity.

• Introduction - Sian Lazar
• Part I: Labour movements, society and the state
  • 1. 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 precarity
  • 4. 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 unionism
  • 8. ‘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