Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India - Jörg Nowak

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Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

Jörg Nowak (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
XI, 319 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-05375-8 (ISBN)

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'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 Véras de 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

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular actors such as students, indigenous peoples, and people displaced by dam projects. The study locates the mass strikes in Brazil's construction industry and India's automobile industry in a global conjuncture of protest movements, and develops a new theory of strikes that can take account of the manifold ways in which labour unrest is embedded in local communities and regional networks.

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 inIndia 5 An Ascending Wave: Mass Strikes in the BrazilianConstruction Sector 6 Conclusion Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
Zusatzinfo	XI, 319 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
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	3-030-05375-X / 303005375X
ISBN-13	978-3-030-05375-8 / 9783030053758

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