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Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India - Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India - Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
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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. "Joerg 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."
-Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History,
The Netherlands "Nowak's book meticulously details the trajectory
of strikes and its resultant new forms of organisations in India
and Brazil. The central focus of this analytically rich and thought
provoking book is to search for a new political alternative model
of organising workers. A very good deed indeed!" -Nandita Mondal,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India "Joerg Nowak analyses with
critical sense forms of popular organization that often remain
invisible. It is an indispensable book for all those who are
looking for more effective analytical resources to better
understand the present situation and the future promises of the
workers' movements." -Roberto Veras de Oliveira, Federal University
of Paraiba, Brazil "In this timely and important study, Nowak
convincingly challenges the dominant Eurocentric approach to labour
conflict and calls for a new theory of strikes. He stresses the
need to engage in a wider perspective that includes social
reproduction, neighbourhood mobilisations, and the specific
traditions of struggles in the Global South." -Edward Webster,
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
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