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- Analyses novel forms of workers’ organisation
- Looks beyond a narrow focus on the workplace and trade unions
- Explores specific conditions for strikes in emerging economies
Part of the book series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (PEPP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
“Jörg Nowak has written an ambitious, wide-ranging and very important book. Based on extensive empirical research in Brazil and India and a thorough analysis of the secondary literature, Nowak reveals that numerous labour conflicts develop in the absence of trade unions, but with the support of kinship networks, local communities, social movements and other types of associations. This impressive work may well become a major building block for a new interpretation of global workers’ struggles.”
—Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
“Nowak’s book meticulously details the trajectory of strikes and its resultant new forms of organisations in India and Brazil. The central focus of this analytically rich and thought provoking book is to search for a new political alternative model of organising workers. A very good deed indeed!”
—Nandita Mondal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
“Jörg Nowak analyses with critical sense forms of popular organization that often remain invisible. It is an indispensable book for all those who are looking for more effective analytical resources to better understand the present situation and the future promises of the workers’ movements.”
—Roberto Vérasde Oliveira, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
“In this timely and important study, Nowak convincingly challenges the dominant Eurocentric approach to labour conflict and calls for a new theory of strikes. He stresses the need to engage in a wider perspective that includes social reproduction, neighbourhood mobilisations, and the specific traditions of struggles in the Global South.”
—Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Keywords
- eurocentrism
- popular organisation
- subalternity
- industrial relations
- mass strikes
- social movement unionism
- labour geography
- global production networks
- unequal exchange
- precarity
- informality
- strike waves
- India
- automobile sector in India
- Brazil
- construction sector
- arson
- street protests
- spatial patterns
- urban politics
- latin american politics
Reviews
“The book is a major achievement and deserves to be read as widely as possible. It makes important conclusions about common problems of resurgent political authoritarianism and political crisis on the left. … this book helps us to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses of strike waves in recent times.” (Tom Barnes, Progress in Political Economy (PPE), ppesydney.net, May 29, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Jörg Nowak
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
Book Subtitle: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression
Authors: Jörg Nowak
Series Title: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05375-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05374-1Published: 20 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73126-7Published: 30 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05375-8Published: 20 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2524-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 319
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Urban Politics, Asian Politics, Latin American Politics, Sociology of Work