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Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

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Series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 3030053741
ISBN13: 9783030053741
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 20 2019
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular actors such as students, indigenous peoples, and people displaced by dam projects. The study locates the mass strikes in Brazil's construction industry and India's automobile industry in a global conjuncture of protest movements, and develops a new theory of strikes that can take account of the manifold ways in which labour unrest is embedded in local communities and regional networks.

Jörg Nowak has written an ambitious, wide-ranging and very important book. Based on extensive empirical research in Brazil and India and a thorough analysis of the secondary literature, Nowak reveals that numerous labour conflicts develop in the absence of trade unions, but with the support of kinship networks, local communities, social movements and other types of associations. This impressive work may well become a major building block for a new interpretation of global workers' struggles.

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