Class Strikes Back

Dario Azzellini, Ph.D. (1967), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, is visiting scholar at Murphy Institute/CUNY. He has published monographs, edited books and articles on social movements, social transformation, labour and migration studies, and Latin American Studies. Michael G. Kraft, Ph.D. (2004), Vienna University of Economics, is a lecturer on social movements and economic and social transformations. He has published on heterodox economics and neoliberalism, social struggles and workers’ self-management in Ex-Yugoslavia.

”The path through decades of working class defeat is much discussed but little studied. Azzellini and Kraft's book The Class Strikes Back seeks to change that [...] Everyone involved in and studying working class self-organizing needs to not only read this book but use it as a model for continuing this long overdue work.”—Robert Ovetz, Journal of Labor and Society  “By offering a wealth of examples of workers’ autonomy in times of neoliberalism, ranging from manufacturing to logistics, and with an emphasis on migrants and the precariat, this volume rekindles faith in the transformative power of collective mobilization and worker solidarity in the twenty-first century.”—Nico Pizzolato, Studies in Working-Class History

• AcknowledgementsNote on Contributors1 Introduction: A Return to the Shop Floor or How to Confront Neoliberal CapitalismDario Azzellini and Michael G. KraftWorkers’ Self-Organisation beyond and against Corporative Unions and the State2 Workers’ Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical ConsiderationsMithilesh Kumar and Ranabir Samaddar3 Autonomous Worker Committees in Marikana, South Africa: Journey to the MountainLuke Sinwell4 Greece: Grassroots Labour Struggles in a Crisis-Ridden CountryAntonios Broumas, Elias Ioakimoglou and Kostas Haritakis5 Fighting Against Capitalist Ownership and State Bureaucracy – Labour Struggles in VenezuelaDario AzzelliniNon-Corporate Unionism and Social Movements6 Revolts on Goose Island: A Long Fight Pays Off for Chicago Window Factory WorkersKari Lydersen7 The Egyptian Workers’ Movement: Revolt, Revolution and Counter-RevolutionAnne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny8 Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers’ Strike to Social UprisingChiara Milan9 Sinaltrainal: Transforming the Workers’ Movement in ColombiaCarlos Olaya10 A Fistful of Dollars? The Labour Dispute in the Babylon CinemaHansi OostingaRenewed Forms of Struggle and Workers’ Self-Management11 New Workers’ Struggles in Turkey since the 2000s: Possibilities and LimitsDemet Ş. Dinler12 Recovered Imaginaries: Workers’ Self-Organisation and Radical Unionism in IndonesiaFelix Hauf13 The Revolution in LogisticsAnna Curcio14 Sweat and Detergent not Bread and Roses: Behind the Shiny Surface of London’s Financial Industry, Latin Cleaners Struggle for DignityElmar WigandReferencesIndex