Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism

Maurizio Atzeni is Marie Curie Research Fellow and Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, UK

• Introduction: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Labour and Collective ActionPART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES -EXPLAINING THE CENTRALITY OF LABOUR WITHIN CAPITALISM1.Marx and Marxist Views on Work and the Capitalist Labour Process; David Spencer2. Theorising the Working Class in Twenty-First Century Global Capitalism; Beverly Silver3. Who is the Working Class? Wage Earners and Other Labourers; Marcel Van der Linden4. The Reproduction of Labour Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution; Silvia FedericiPART II: CLASSICAL ISSUES EXPLAINING WORKERS' RESISTANCE AND ORGANISATION5. The Role of Trade Unions in Building Resistance: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Ralph Darlington6. Workers Organising Workers: Grass-roots Struggle as the Past and Future of Trade Union Renewal; Sheila Cohen7. The Workers' Control Alternative; Maurizio AtzeniPART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES WORKERS' ORGANISAING IN THE GLOBAL WORLD8. Informal Labour, Factory Labour or the End of Labour? Anthropological Reflections on Labour Value; Massimiliano Mollona9. New Forms of Labour Conflict: A Transnational Overview; Gregor Gall10. Labour Migration and Emergent Class Conflict: Corporate Neo-liberalism, Worker Mobility, and Labour Resistance in the US; Immanuel Ness.