Austerity and Working-Class Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times
Redaktion: Fishwick, Adam; Connolly, Heather

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.

Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these 'hard times'. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.

The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786603548
• Artikelnr.: 53500426

Autorenporträt

Adam Fishwick is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University. Heather Connolly is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Business at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Working-Class Resistance in Hard Times, Adam Fishwick and
Heather Connolly
Resisting and Surviving Organised Politics: The Case of the London Housing
Movement, Lisa Mckenzie
Contesting Austerity in Low Resistance Capitalist Contexts, Saori Shibata
and David Bailey
Power of Labour and Logistics: Immigrant Struggles in Italy's Logistics
Industry, Rossana Cillo and Lucia Pradella
Resistance and Revolution: Working-Class Intransigence, The Libertarian
Tradition, and the Catalan Crisis, Stuart Price
From Social Movement to Labour Protests: The Case of the Sans Papiers in
France, Heather Connolly and Sylvie Contrepois
Beyond Water, Beyond Folk Politics? Lessons from Greece for an Irish
Socialist Governmentality, Nicholas Kiersey
Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Confronting the Return of Austerity in
Argentina? Adam Fishwick
E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised
Workplace, Phoebe Moore
Conclusion: Towards Connecting the Diversity of Working-Class Resistance,
Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly
About the Contributors