Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle'

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesPreface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The New International Working ClassPart I: Capitalism and Imperialism2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector ConclusionNotesIndex

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle'

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesPreface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The New International Working ClassPart I: Capitalism and Imperialism2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector ConclusionNotesIndex

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle'

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesPreface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The New International Working ClassPart I: Capitalism and Imperialism2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector ConclusionNotesIndex