Where Are The Unions?

Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Labour & Industrial Relations, Government, Communism & Socialism
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Author: Peter Waterman ISBN: 9781783609918
Publisher: Zed Books Publication: March 15, 2017
Imprint: Zed Books Language: English
Author: Peter Waterman
ISBN: 9781783609918
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication: March 15, 2017
Imprint: Zed Books
Language: English

First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).

Interdisciplinary approach: contributors are activists, journalists and academics; historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary theorists; and they come from Argentina, Tunisia, Egypt, the UK, Italy, Greece, Spain, Lebanon.

Offers a global perspective on the formation of the precarious workforce.

Explicitly addresses the tension and split between the traditional unions and anarchistic politics.

Looks at state co-option of unions.

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First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).

Interdisciplinary approach: contributors are activists, journalists and academics; historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary theorists; and they come from Argentina, Tunisia, Egypt, the UK, Italy, Greece, Spain, Lebanon.

Offers a global perspective on the formation of the precarious workforce.

Explicitly addresses the tension and split between the traditional unions and anarchistic politics.

Looks at state co-option of unions.

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