Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are
reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. In Live
Working or Die Fighting, Paul Mason tells the story of this new
working class alongside the epic history of the global labour
movement, from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through
its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s and up to today's
anti-globalisation movement. Blending exhilarating historical
narrative with reportage from today's front line, he links the
lives of 19th-century factory girls with the lives of teenagers in
a giant Chinese mobile phone factory; he tells the story of how
mass trade unions were born in London's Docklands - and how they're
being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that stand
on the very same spot. It is a story of urban slums, self-help
co-operatives, choirs and brass bands, free love and self-education
by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing
industrial economies of the world it is still with us. Live Working
or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism
and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two
hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book.
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