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Wildcat: Workers’ Movements and Global Capitalism

Series Editors:

Immanuel Ness (City University of New York)

Malehoko Tshoaedi (University of Johannesburg)

Peter Cole (Western Illinois University)

Raquel Varela (Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon New University)

Kate Alexander (University of Johannesburg)

Tim Pringle (SOAS, University of London)

Workers’ movements are a common and recurring feature in contemporary capitalism. The same militancy that inspired the mass labor movements of the twentieth century continues to define worker struggles that proliferate throughout the world today.

For more than a century, labor unions have mobilized to represent the political-economic interests of workers by uncovering the abuses of capitalism, establishing wage standards, improving oppressive working conditions, and bargaining with employers and the state. Since the 1970s, organized labor has declined in size and influence as the global power and influence of capital has expanded dramatically. The world over, existing unions are in a condition of fracture and turbulence in response to neoliberalism, financialization, and the reappearance of rapacious forms of imperialism. New and modernized unions are adapting to conditions and creating class-conscious workers’ movements rooted in militancy and solidarity. Ironically, while the power of organized labor contracts, working-class militancy and resistance persists and is growing in the Global South.

Wildcat publishes ambitious and innovative works on the history and political economy of workers’ movements and is a forum for debate on pivotal movements and labor struggles. The series applies a broad definition of the labor movement to include workers in and out of unions, and seeks works that examine proletarianization and class formation; mass production; gender, affective and reproductive labor; imperialism and workers; syndicalism and independent unions, and labor and Leftist social and political movements.

Also available:

Choke Points:

Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global

Supply Chain

Edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness

Dying for an iPhone

Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers

Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai

Just Work?

Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today

Edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli

Hlatshwayo

Wobblies of the World:

A Global History of the IWW

Edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer

Southern Insurgency:

The Coming of the Global Working Class

Immanuel Ness

Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

Edited by Robert Ovetz

The Spirit of Marikana:

The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa

Luke Sinwell with Siphiwe Mbatha

Solidarity

Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights

Steve Striffler

Working the Phones:

Control and Resistance in Call Centres

Jamie Woodcock