On working classes, global realities
Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it effects workers at the beginning of the 21st Century. Theoretical contributions explore: today's old and new working classes, workers 'north' and 'south', peasants and workers, gender and the working class, migrant workers, tele-working. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.
Contents
- Preface by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys with Greg Albo & David Coates
- Ursula Huws - The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World
- Henry Bernstein - 'The Peasantry' in Global Capitalism: Who, Where and Why?
- Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi - Workers North and South
- Andrew Ross - No-Collar Labour in America's 'New Economy'
- Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu - Mapping India's World of Unorganized Labour
- Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller & Greg Ruiters - The Southern African Working Class: Production, Reproduction and Politics
- Steve Jefferys - Western European Trade Unionism at 2000
- David Mandel - 'Why is there no revolt?' The Russian Working Class and Labour Movement
- Haideh Moghissi & Saeed Rahnema - The Working Class and the Islamic State in Iran
- Huw Beynon & Jorge Ramalho - Democracy and the Organization of Class Struggle in Brazil
- Gerard Greenfield - Organizing, Protest and Working Class Self-Activity: Reflections on East Asia
- Rohini Hensman - Organizing Against the Odds: Women in India's Informal Sector
- Eric Mann - 'A race struggle, a class struggle, a women's struggle all at once': Organizing on the Buses of L.A.
- Justin Paulson - Peasant Struggles and International Solidarity: the Case of Chiapas
- Judith Adler Hellman - Virtual Chiapas: A Reply to Paulson
- Peter Kwong - The Politics of Labour Migration: Chinese Workers in New York
- Brigitte Young - The 'Mistress' and the Maid' in the Globalized Economy
- Rosemary Warskett - Feminism's Challenge to Unions in the North: Possibilities and Contradictions
- Sam Gindin - Turning Points and Starting Points: Brenner, Left Turbulence and Class Politics
- Leo Panitch - Reflections on Strategy for Labour
ISSN 0081-0606, PB 0 85036 490 6
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Posted: 6 March 2001