Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-05374-1 (ISBN)
"Jörg Nowak has written an ambitious, wide-ranging and very important book. Based on extensive empirical research in Brazil and India and a thorough analysis of the secondary literature, Nowak reveals that numerous labour conflicts develop in the absence of trade unions, but with the support of kinship networks, local communities, social movements and other types of associations. This impressive work may well become a major building block for a new interpretation of global workers' struggles."
-Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
"Nowak's book meticulously details the trajectory of strikes and its resultant new forms of organisations in India and Brazil. The central focus of this analytically rich and thought provoking book is to search for a new political alternative model of organising workers. A very good deed indeed!"
-Nandita Mondal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
"Jörg Nowak analyses with critical sense forms of popular organization that often remain invisible. It is an indispensable book for all those who are looking for more effective analytical resources to better understand the present situation and the future promises of the workers' movements."
-Roberto Vérasde Oliveira, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
"In this timely and important study, Nowak convincingly challenges the dominant Eurocentric approach to labour conflict and calls for a new theory of strikes. He stresses the need to engage in a wider perspective that includes social reproduction, neighbourhood mobilisations, and the specific traditions of struggles in the Global South."
-Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Jörg Nowak is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations at University of Nottingham, UK. He works on South-South investment, labour unrest in emerging economies, Labour Geography and Althusserian Marxism.
1 Introduction.- 2 A New Theory of Strikes: Moving Beyond Eurocentrism.- 3 The Political Economy of Mass Strikes in the Global Crisis.- 4 A Protracted Struggle: Strikes in the Automobile Sector in India.- 5 An Ascending Wave: Mass Strikes in the Brazilian Construction Sector.- 6 Conclusion Index.
"By investigating two strikes in the Brazilian construction industry and two strikes in the Indian automobile industry that took place between 2010-2014, and then identifying important findings from his comparison between both, Nowak produces an excellent account of these struggles and gives activists and scholars much to think about regarding contemporary struggles and studies of labor wherever it might be located." (Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol. 8 (1), 2020)
"The book is a major achievement and deserves to be read as widely as possible. It makes important conclusions about common problems of resurgent political authoritarianism and political crisis on the left. ... this book helps us to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses of strike waves in recent times." (Tom Barnes, Progress in Political Economy (PPE), ppesydney.net, May 29, 2019)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.03.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy |
| Zusatzinfo | XI, 319 p. 6 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | arson • Automobile sector in India • Brazil • Construction Sector • Eurocentrism • Global Production Networks • India • Industrial relations • informality • labour geography • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS • mass strikes • popular organisation • Precarity • Social Movement Unionism • Spatial Patterns • street protests • strike waves • Subalternity • unequal exchange • urban politics |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-05374-1 / 3030053741 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-05374-1 / 9783030053741 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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