Working Classes, Global Realities

Plot

The making of a cybertariat? Virtual work in a real world / Ursula Huws -- 'The peasantry' in global capitalism : who, where and why? / Henry Bernstein -- Workers north and south / Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi -- No-collar labour in America's 'new economy' / Andrew Ross -- Mapping India's world of unorganized labour / Barbara Harriss-White and Nandini Gooptu -- The Southern African working class : production, reproduction and politics / Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller and Greg Ruiters -- Western European trade unionism at 2000 / Steve Jefferys -- 'Why is there no revolt?' The Russian working class and labour movement / David Mandel -- The working class and the Islamic state in Iran / Haideh Moghissi and Saeed Rahnerna -- Democracy and the organization of class struggle in Brazil / Huw Beynon and José Ramalho -- Organizing, protest and working class self-activity : reflections on East Asia / Gerard Greenfield -- Organizing against the odds : women in India's informal sector / Rohini Hensman -- 'A race struggle, a class struggle, a women's struggle all at once' : organizing on the buses of L.A. / Eric Mann -- Peasant struggles and international solidarity : the case of Chiapas / Justin Paulson -- Virtual Chiapas : a reply to Paulson / Judith Adler Hellman -- The politics of labour migration : Chinese workers in New York / Peter Kwong -- The 'mistress' and the 'maid' in the globalized economy / Brigitte Young -- Feminism's challenge to unions in the North : possibilities and contradictions / Rosemary Warskett -- Turning points and starting points : Brenner, left turbulence and class politics / Sam Gindin -- Reflections on strategy for labour / Leo Panitch.