Austerity and working-class resistance: survival, disruption and creation in hard times
Fishwick, Adam ; Connolly, Heather
Rowman & Littlefield International - London
2018
225 p.
working class ; social conditions ; politics ; economic policy ; social policy ; social movement ; economic recession ; digitalisation
United Kingdom ; Italy ; Spain ; France ; Ireland ; Argentina
Social sciences
English
Bibliogr.;Index
978-1786603531
05-67339
"The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.
Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these ‘hard times'. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.
The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance."
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