Working Classes, Global Realities : Socialist Register 2001

by Panitch, Leo

• ISBN13: 9781583670316
• ISBN10: 1583670319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press

Summary

The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964.--Mike DavisCompulsory reading.--Daniel SingerSocialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it affects workers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Theoretical contributions explore today's old and new working classes, workers north and south, peasants and workers, gender and the working class, as well as migrant and knowledge workers. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.Contributions include: Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Henry Bernstein, Peter Kwong, Eric Mann, Ursula Huws, Andree Levesque, Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Rosemary, Brigitte Young, Rohini Banaji, Gerard Greenfield, Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu, Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller, Greg Ruiter, Huw Beynon & Jose Ramalho, Justin Paulson, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, David Mandel, Michael Goldfield, and Steve Jeffreys.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World	1	(24)
Ursula Huws
`The Peasantry' in Global Capitalism: Who, Where and Why?	25	(28)
Henry Bernstein
Workers North and South	53	(24)
Beverly J. Silver
Giovanni Arrighi
No-Collar Labour in America's `New Economy'	77	(12)
Andrew Ross
Mapping India's World of Unorganized Labour	89	(30)
Barbara Harriss-White
Nandini Gooptu
The Southern African Working Class: Production, Reproduction and Politics	119	(24)
Patrick Bond
Darlene Miller
Greg Ruiters
Western European Trade Unionism at 2000	143	(28)
Steve Jefferys
`Why is there no revolt?' The Russian Working Class and Labour Movement	171	(26)
David Mandel
The Working Class and the Islamic State in Iran	197	(22)
Haideh Moghissi
Saeed Rahnema
Democracy and the Organization of Class Struggle in Brazil	219	(20)
Huw Beynon
Jose Ramalho
Organizing, Protest and Working Class Self-Activity: Reflections on East Asia	239	(10)
Gerard Greenfield
Organizing Against the Odds: Women in India's Informal Sector	249	(10)
Rohini Hensman
`A race struggle, a class struggle, a women's struggle all at once': Organizing on the Buses of L.A.	259	(16)
Eric Mann
Peasant Struggles and International Solidarity: the Case of Chiapas	275	(14)
Justin Paulson
Virtual Chiapas: A Reply to Paulson	289	(4)
Judith Adler Hellman
The Politics of Labour Migration: Chinese Workers in New York	293	(22)
Peter Kwong
The `Mistress' and the `Maid' in the Globalized Economy	315	(14)
Brigitte Young
Feminism's Challenge to Unions in the North: Possibilities and Contradictions	329	(14)
Rosemary Warskett
Turning Points and Starting Points: Brenner, Left Turbulence and Class Politics	343	(24)
Sam Gindin
Reflections on Strategy for Labour	367
Leo Panitch