While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. Through original case studies, the book looks at the various shades of workers'movements, analysing different forms of popular organisation as responses to new social and economic conditions, such as restructuring of work and new areas of investment.

• Workers’ Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The New Upsurge of Strikes—Tendencies, Challenges and Limits
  • 1 Labour Strikes in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia, 1998–2013
  • 2 Space and Strike Diffusion in a Decentralized Authoritarian Country: A Study of the Auto Parts Industry in South China
  • 3 Strikes in Vietnam
  • 4 Making Sense of Legality: Everyday Resistance and Survival Tactics by Undocumented Indian Female Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates
  • 5 Against All Odds: Tracing the Struggles of Workers to Form a Union Inside a Special Economic Zone in Tamil Nadu, India
  • 6 Mass Strikes in the Brazilian Construction Sector, 2011–2014
  • 7 Conflicts around Subcontracted Workers in Chile’s Copper Mining Sector
  • 8 The United States: Worker Agency and Innovation in the Midst of Crisis
  • 9 Strike Movements and Popular Class Struggles in Burkina Faso
  • 10 Mass Strikes in Nigeria, 2000–2015: Struggling against Neo-Liberal Hegemony
  • 11 Strikes, Bread Riots and Blockades: Mozambican Workers and Communities in Resistance
  • 12 The Strike Wave of 2015 in Germany
  • 13 The Politics of Striking: On the Shifting Dynamics of Workers’ Struggles in Britain
  • 14 Austerity and Labour Resistance: The Shifting Shape of Strikes in Spain
  • 15 Gender and Precarity in Crisis-Ridden Greece
  • 16 The Strike Movement and Labour Protests in Russia
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors