, by GINDIN Sam, HURLEY Michael
Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related (...)
, by POST Charles
Neoliberalism isn’t a new concept any more. Using it, along with “deindustrialization,” to describe changes in the core economies since the 1970s has become a kind of truism. But more recently, activists have started to consider what the implications of this regime of capital have been on class (...)
BOTH THE SIZE and composition of the world working class have changed dramatically over the past four decades. But these massive shifts are not reflected in the strength of workers’ organizations.
In what was traditionally called the global South, capital accumulation has resulted in the fast (...)
, by GUTIERREZ Bernardo
New forms of social mobilisation by networked movements have created a new “social atmosphere” that is already having an irreversible impact on other more traditional social and political actors and their practices.
This is the first piece of a new TNI series of articles: At the crossroads - (...)
, by ECHEVERRIA Tessa, POST Charles, SERNATINGER Andrew
Work and labor have always been a central concern for anticapitalists of all stripes. Like just about everything else in the history of capitalism, the world of work is a force in motion. Capitalism changes and responds to the world market, new technologies and developments in the class (...)
, by SOLIS Richard
This contribution was first delivered in the 5th Asian Global Justice School (AGJS) held by the International Institute for Research and Eduction-Manila (IIRE-Manila). It became richer with the incorporation of the results of the discussion of the 2013 batch of AGJS-Manila.
Introduction
The (...)
, by RACHLEFF Peter
On December 4, 2011, the labor movement, the left, the academy, and the historical profession lost a leader and friend. Eighty-four years young, David Montgomery had remained active and vital until his passing, giving an address at a labor history conference at the University of Iowa in July (...)
, by FRANK Dana
When people first met him, they were sometimes confused or fooled. Surely this mild-mannered, shy, even a bit socially awkward man couldn’t be the great David Montgomery, the towering figure at the top of US labor history? I remember once in 1985 I got a ride to a labor history conference in (...)
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