Bøker av Immanuel Ness

Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion presents a unique contribution to the political economy literature through highlighting the significance of the impact of the platform and logistics on the working class and potential challenges from labour across the world.

This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from the late twentieth century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalization of work, focusing on its most significant theories, intellectual traditions, and authors.

The Global South is the epicentre of workers' struggles today

This look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives. The contributors argue that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation.

This work examines the re-emergence of Central Labor Councils and how they are being utilized as effective bodies to help rejuvenate the labour movement. The book combines a history of CLCs in America since the early 19th century with case studies by CLC leaders from across America.

Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs

Tells the story of immigrants labour struggles, examining how unions can learn from their example, and explaining their activism in the face of terrific odds.

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles.*BR**BR*Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play - the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labour. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China, the new labour organisations in India, and the militancy of the miners in South Africa. *BR**BR*This is a study about the nature of the new industrial worker in the Global South; about people living a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle.

Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree