New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
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New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism is a 2014 book by Immanuel Ness which discusses the resurgence of militant worker resistance across the world from the 1980s to the 2010s. Countries discussed include Italy, China, Russia, India, South Africa, Madagascar, Colombia, Argentina, Sweden, Australia, USA and the UK.
Summary
Autonomist Unions in Europe and Asia
Operaismo Revisited: Italy’s State-Capitalist Assault on Workers and the Rise of COBAs
Autonomous Workers’ Struggles in Contemporary China
Collective Labor Protest in Contemporary Russia
Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global South
The Struggle for Independent Unions in India’s Industrial Belts: Domination, Resistance, and the Maruti Suzuki Autoworkers
Exploding Anger: Workers’ Struggles and Self-Organization in South Africa’s Mining Industry
Neoliberal Conservation and Worker-Peasant Autonomism in Madagascar
Sintracarbón: On the Path to Revolutionary Labor Unionism and Politics in Colombia
The Formation of a New Independent Democratic Union in Argentina: The Subte Transport Workers Union
Organizing Autonomy and Radical Unionism in the Global North
Syndicalism in Sweden: A Hundred Years of the SAC
Doing without the Boss: Workers’ Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Three notable cases of workers' control in Australia are studied, the Sydney Opera House Work-In, the Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In and the Nymboida Mine Work-In.