New and Expanded Essays from a Special Issue of Monthly
Review
RISING FROM THE ASHES?
Labor in the Age of “Global”
Capitalism
edited by
Ellen Meiksins Wood
Peter Meiksins
Michael Yates
Big changes in the global economy and world politics have put new questions
on the table for labor movements around the world. Can workers regain the
initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizing and government
cutbacks? Can unions revive their ranks and reignite the public imagination? Is
labor rising from the ashes?
Rising from the Ashes? sets these crucial questions in global
context, connecting and contrasting new developments in the United States to
recent trends abroad—from Mexico to Asia, from Canada to Eastern Europe.
Rising from the Ashes? takes on the hottest issues being debated by
scholars and labor activists, including the changing composition of the
international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism,
the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of
recent eruptions of labor militancy, and the strategic options available to
working people in an age of "global" capitalism.
Contributors include union leaders as well as movement builders outside the
mainstream, and scholars as well as activists. Without parallel in its
international coverage and analytic sophistication, Rising from the
Ashes? provides a fresh, radical assessment of labor today.
Contents
Part 1. Labor
and Class in a Changing World
LABOR, CLASS, AND STATE IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM
by Ellen Meiksins Wood
TALKING ABOUT WORK by Doug Henwood
SAME AS IT EVER WAS? THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORKING
CLASS
by Peter Meiksins
ON GENDER AND CLASS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY by
Johanna Brenner
Part 2. The
American Scene: Prospects and Problems
AMERICAN LABOR: A MOVEMENT AGAIN? by Kim Moody
ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED: WILL PROMISES BECOME
PRACTICES?
by Fernando Gapasin
RACE AND LABOR ORGANIZTION IN THE UNITED STATES
by Michael Goldfield
CLASS, COMMUNITY, AND EMPIRE: TOWARD AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST
STRATEGY FOR LABOR by Eric Mann
LABOR EDUCATION IN THE MAELSTROM OF CLASS STRUGGLE
by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Part 3. A
World to Win?
WORKER INSURGENCY, RURAL REVOLT, AND THE CRISIS OF THE MEXICAN
REGIME by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
COMMUNISTS AND WORKERS IN EX-COMMUNIST EUROPE by
Peter Gowan
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: IMPASSE OR MODEL?
by Gregory Albo and Chris Roberts
THE ICFTU AND THE POLITICS OF COMPROMISE by Gerard
Greenfield
NOTES ON LABOR AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: STARTING
OVER?
by Sam Gindin
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