Austerity and Working-Class Resistance

Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times

AvAdam Fishwick,Heather Connolly

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Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.

Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these ‘hard times’. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.

The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-05
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786603548
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Serie:Key Concepts in Philosophy
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x undefined mm

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Adam Fishwick is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University.Heather Connolly is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Business at the University of Leicester.

Recensioner i media

Austerity and Working-Class Resistance provides a fascinating and original account of the often denied practices of resistance, which at different spaces and times, within and outside Europe, have followed one of the most critical times of our modern history, including the economic, social, political and financial crises. It is also a riveting read, rich with fascinating human stories.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Working-Class Resistance in Hard Times, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly Resisting and Surviving Organised Politics: The Case of the London Housing Movement, Lisa Mckenzie Contesting Austerity in Low Resistance Capitalist Contexts, Saori Shibata and David Bailey Power of Labour and Logistics: Immigrant Struggles in Italy’s Logistics Industry, Rossana Cillo and Lucia Pradella Resistance and Revolution: Working-Class Intransigence, The Libertarian Tradition, and the Catalan Crisis, Stuart Price From Social Movement to Labour Protests: The Case of the Sans Papiers in France, Heather Connolly and Sylvie Contrepois Beyond Water, Beyond Folk Politics? Lessons from Greece for an Irish Socialist Governmentality, Nicholas Kiersey Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Confronting the Return of Austerity in Argentina? Adam Fishwick E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised Workplace, Phoebe Moore Conclusion: Towards Connecting the Diversity of Working-Class Resistance, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly About the Contributors

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