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Workers Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century

Transforming Capitalism

Series Editors: Ian Bruff, University of Manchester; Julie Cupples, University of Edinburgh; Gemma Edwards, University of Manchester; Laura Horn, University of Roskilde; Simon Springer, University of Victoria; Jacqui True, Monash University

This book series provides an open platform for the publication of path-breaking and interdisciplinary scholarship which seeks to understand and critique capitalism along four key lines: crisis, development, inequality and resistance. At its core lies the assumption that the world is in various states of transformation, and that these transformations may build upon earlier paths of change and conflict while also potentially producing new forms of crisis, development, inequality and resistance. Through this approach the series alerts us as to how capitalism is always evolving and hints at how we could also transform capitalism itself through our own actions. It is rooted in the vibrant, broad and pluralistic debates spanning a range of approaches which are being practised in a number of fields and disciplines. As such, it will appeal to sociology, geography, cultural studies, international studies, development, social theory, politics, labour and welfare studies, economics, anthropology, law and more.

Titles in the Series

The Radicalization of Pedagogy: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Simon Springer, Marcelo de Souza and Richard J. White

Theories of Resistance: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Richard J. White and Simon Springer

The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Richard J. White, Simon Springer and Marcelo Lopes de Souza

States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crises of Capitalism, edited by Cemal Burak Tansel

The Imperial Mode of Living: Critical Political Ecology and the Crisis of Capitalism, Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

A Sense of Inequality, Wendy Bottero

Workers Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective, edited by Jrg Nowak, Madhumita Dutta and Peter Birke

Workers Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century

A Global Perspective

Edited by Jrg Nowak, Madhumita Dutta and Peter Birke

London New York

Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd
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Selection and editorial matter 2018 Jrg Nowak, Madhumita Dutta and Peter Birke

Copyright in individual chapters is held by the respective chapter authors.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN:HB 978-1-7866-0403-3
PB 978-1-7866-0404-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nowak, Jrg, 1973 editor. | Dutta, Madhumita, editor.

Title: Workers movements and strikes in the twenty-first century : a global perspective / edited Jrg Nowak; Madhumita Dutta and Peter Birke.

Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017058551 (print) | LCCN 2018000315 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786604057 (electronic) | ISBN 9781786604033 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781786604040 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Labor movementHistory21st century.

Classification: LCC HD4855 (ebook) | LCC HD4855 .W67 2017 (print) | DDC 331.88dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058551

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.481992.

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Jrg Nowak, Peter Birke and Madhumita Dutta

Fahmi Panimbang and Abu Mufakhir

Deng Yunxue

Mark Anner

Bindhulakshmi Pattadath

Madhumita Dutta

Jrg Nowak

Antonio Aravena Carrasco and Mauricio Muoz

Dave Kamper

Bettina Engels

Femi Aborisade and Drew Povey

Judith Marshall

Peter Birke

Alexander Gallas

Nikolai Huke and Olaf Tietje

Anna Koumandaraki and Athanasios Tsakiris

Elena Gerasimova and Petr Bizyukov

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Immanuel Ness who had the initial idea for the book. Special thanks go to Nagraj Adve who did a careful and engaged copy-editing of the book and to Teresa Tong at the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong who provided crucial help to arrange funding for this. Huge thanks to all the wonderful contributors to this volume for their immense patience with the various rounds of revisions and delays in the completion of the book. Without them this book would not have been possible.

We would like to thank Transforming Capitalism series editors Laura Horn and Ian Bruff for their guidance and ever-so-helpful Dhara Snowden of Rowman & Littlefield.

Madhushree Basu, a young freelance graphic designer, a wonderful dancer and a labour activist made the illustration for the book cover that powerfully captures the essence of the book. We are very thankful to her. Our thanks also go to Simon Springer, editorial board member of Rowman & Littlefield, for his thoughtful advice on the cover design.

This book has been a long collaborative journey for the three of us working together as editors based in different continents and with authors spread across the globe. Our collaboration meant that at times when things looked difficult both for the book and in our respective lives, as a team we pulled ourselves together, respecting each others constraints and sharing workloads. This book is a testimony to our collaborative work. It was a wonderful journey worth travelling.

Introduction

The New Upsurge of StrikesTendencies, Challenges and Limits

Jrg Nowak, Peter Birke and Madhumita Dutta

DAYS AROUND MAYDAY

On Friday, 28 April 2017, the first general strike in Brazil in eleven years launched protests against President Temers plans to overhaul a pension scheme, a measure that will drastically affect the young workforce. Among the many aspects of President Temers Bridge to the future plan which has decimated public spending and social security, has included attacks on schools and universities, and will lead to even more environmental destruction, workers saw the planned pension reform as the main attack on their entitlements. During the strike, thousands of workers across Brazil clashed with riot police.

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