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Book SynopsisHow is the class being transformed in the Global South? How are working people organising in the workplace and in the community? What are the forces shaping and reshaping workers' lives? Four essays focus on change amongst American workers.
Table of ContentsClass and the capitalist corporation in the 21st Century, Greg Albo; China's ruling class, Lin Chun; China's working class, Lu Zhang; The working classes in China and India, Jens Lerche; India's New Trade Union Initiative, Gautam Mody; Class in the Slums, Supriya Roy Chowdhury; The Egyptian working class, Joel Beinin; NUMSA and the class struggle in South Africa, Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Sam Ashman; The transformation of Chile's class structure, Tim Clark; Class and politics in Turkey, Sebnem Oguz; The European working classes, Andreas Bieler; Class analysis and the British working class, Hugo Radice; Labour's new morphology: From informality to infoproletariat, Ricardo Atunes; What happened to the new middle class? Randy Martin; Social class and its global reproduction in the age of austerity, Sue Ferguson & David McNally; On decent work: a global perspective, Ben Selwyn; The International Olympic Committee: Class and Neoliberal Globalization, George Wright; Money in American politics, Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgenson & Jie Chen.
