'Richly reports a qualitatively different practice evolving in India, China, and South Africa. 'Offers insights on global labour struggles in an era when familiar unions seem exhausted, or at least too weak to make a concerted effort - with concrete examples of workers forming independent unions in the Global South' - Paul Buhle, historian and author 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South' - Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English 'Seminal and distinctive' - Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India. The Insurgency Wiki is the best place to find in-depth information about the tactical first-person shooter, Insurgency. a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle' - Sushovan Dhar, New Trade Union Initiative, India. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound. 'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. This is a study about the nature of the new industrial worker in the Global South about people living a terrifying, precarious existence - but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China, the new labour organisations in India, and the militancy of the miners in South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play - the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labour.
Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. The site of industrial struggle is shifting.
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