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• Preface Part I: Setting up the question 1 European labour movements in crisis 2 How do labour movements respond to European integration? Surveying the field 3 Conceptualizing European labour movements in crisis Part II: Country studies 4 Germany: Accidental neomercantilism, questionable solidarity? 5 Spain: Going under 6 France: Au milieu 7 Poland: Splendid isolation? Part III: Answering the question 8 Insiders and outsiders on a European scale 9 How do labour movements respond to European integration? 10 Intergovernmentalism, disintegration and the importance of European unity Appendix 1: List of semi-structured research interviewees Glossary References
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Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. In an engaging style which will be accessible to scholars, students and policymakers, the book bases its hypothesis on analysis of four countries, Germany, Spain, France and Poland and two processes: the collective bargaining practices of trade unions in the first decade of the Eurozone and the response of trade unions and social-democratic parties to austerity in Southern Europe. In the first process, although unions did not intentionally compete, there was a drift towards zero-sum outcomes which benefited national workforces in stronger structural positions. In the second process, during which a crisis resulting from the earlier actions of labour occurred, lack of solidarity reinforced effects of competition. -- .
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• List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction Sobin George, Shalini Sinha
• SECTION I: THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LABOUR SPACE 1. Labourscape and Labourspace in Post Liberalised India: Critical Reflections Sobin George, Shalini Sinha 2. Unionisation in Post Reform India: A Review of Trends and Trajectories Rajesh K., Smitha S. Nair 3. Globalisation Dynamics and the Working Class Movement: An Agenda for Future K. R. Shyam Sundar
• SECTION II: RESPONDING TO INFORMALITY: NEW APPROACHES 4. Breaking the Bondage: Organising Brick Kiln Workers in Rural Punjab Rinju Rasaily 5. Safeguarding Livelihoods in Fisheries-A Complex Organisational Challenge Nalini Nayak 6. The Struggle for Space: Organising Street Vendors in India Shalini Sinha 7. Domestic Worker's Movement in Maharashtra: Organising Experiences of Pune City Domestic Workers' Organisation Sujata Gothoskar
• SECTION III: NEW ARTICULATIONS 8. New identities require New Strategies: Union Formation in the Indian IT/ITES Sector Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D'Cruz 9. The SEWA Lok Swasthya Mandali: A Dual Experiment in Organising and Service Provisioning in Gujarat Sapna Desai, Mirai Chatterjee 10. `As Human Beings and As Workers': Sex Worker Unionisation in Karnataka, India Gowri Vijayakumar, Shubha Chacko, Subadra Panchanadeswaran 11. Organising the Unorganised: Academic and Activist Insights from Shipbreaking Yards in Mumbai Yanick Noiseux, V.V. Rane
• SECTION IV: THE NEW WAVES: MYTHS AND REALITIES 12. Mistaken Identities in Information Technology Sector in India: Implications for Unionisation Sobin George 13. Possibilities and Barriers of Workers' Co-operative: Lessons from Failed Takeover Experience of a Closed Mine in Jharkhand Santanu Sarkar 14. Uprisings by Women in Tea Plantations: Contextualising the Pombilaiorumai Movement in Kerala Jithin G. Glossary. Index.
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This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emergent collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing together studies of resistance, struggles and new forms of negotiations from different industries - agriculture, fisheries, brick kiln, plantations, IT sector, domestic workers, ship breakers, sex workers, miners - this book exposes the myths, realities and challenges that the present generation of workers in India faces and struggles with. With contributions from leading thinkers in the field, the work deepens the understanding of the current Indian labour spaces, possibilities for contestations and articulations from below. The volume will be useful to students and researchers of labour studies, economics, sociology, development studies and public policy. It will be an invaluable resource to those engaged with industrial relations, trade unions, human rights, social exclusion as well as labour organisations and research institutions.
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• Acknowledgments Notes on contributors Introduction Dario Azzellini
• 1 Council Democracy, or the End of the Political Alex Demirovic' 2 Contemporary Crisis and Workers' Control Dario Azzellini 3 Workers' Assemblies: New Formations in the Organization of Labor and the Struggle against Capitalism Elise Danielle Thorburn 4 The Austrian Revolution of 1918-1919 andWorking Class Autonomy Peter Haumer 5 Chile: Worker Self-organization and Cordones Industriales under the Allende Government (1970-1973) Franck Gaudichaud 6 "Production Control" or "Factory Soviet"? Workers' Control in Japan Kimiyasu Irie 7 The Factory Commissions in Brazil and the 1964 Coup d'Etat Henrique T. Novaes and Mauricio S. de Faria 8 Self-management, Workers' Control and Resistance against Crisis and Neoliberal Counter-reforms in Mexico Patrick Cuninghame 9 Collective Self-management and Social Classes: The Case of Enterprises Recovered by Their Workers in Uruguay Anabel Rieiro 10 Self-managing the Commons in Contemporary Greece Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Theodoros Karyotis Index.
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The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers' takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx's writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other "heretical" left currents, An Alternative Labour History uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers' movements that until now have been largely obscured. It shows that by bringing permanence and predictability to their workplaces, workers can stabilize their communities through expressions of participatory democracy. And, as history has repeatedly shown, workers have always had the capacity to run their enterprises on their own.
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