Monday 14 November 2011

Trade Unions and the Global Crisis!

Melisa Serrano, Edlira Xhafa and Michael Fichter (eds) (2011) Trade unions and the global crisis: Labour's visions, strategies and responses. Geneva: ILO.

This new, large-scale study of trade unions around the world is available at http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_163855.pdf

Sunday 6 November 2011

Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset?

Lee, Chun-Yi (2011) Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset: A changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese governments. London: Routledge.

More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415575935/

Social Failures of EU Enlargement!

Meardi, Guglielmo (2011) Social Failures of EU Enlargement: A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet . London: Routledge.


More info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415806794/

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Organize!

Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge (eds.) (2012) Organize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice. Toronto: PM Press/Between the Lines.

More info: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=422

Monday 3 October 2011

AFL-CIO's Secret War - now in paperback!

Scipes, Kim (2010) AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

For details, lists of reviews, and 20% discount on cover price, see the author's website at http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/book.htm

Thursday 19 May 2011

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Precarious Liberation in South Africa!

Barchiesi, Franco (2011) Precarious Liberation. Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Price: $29.95 Paperback - 384 pages (ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3610-4)
Published in cooperation with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press.

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Coping with Social Change in Poland's New Capitalism

Mrozowicki, Adam (2011) Coping with Social Change. Life Strategies of Workers' in Poland's New Capitalism. Leuven: Leuven University Press

More info: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789058678652

Friday 11 February 2011

Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World

Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (eds.) (2010) Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution. With a preface by Benedict Anderson. Leiden: Brill.

More info: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=28985

Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements

Ercüment Çelik (2010) Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa. Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers.

For more information from the publisher:
http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?isbn=9783832957216.

AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers

Scipes, Kim (2010) AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

http://lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739135015

Thursday 10 February 2011

Collective Bargaining in South Africa

Godfrey, Shane, Maree, Johann, du Toit, Darcy and Theron, Jan (2010) Collective Bargaining in South Africa: Past, Present and Future? Claremont, Cape Town: Juta & Co.

http://www.jutalaw.co.za/catalogue

Global Restructuring, Labour and Transnational Solidarity

Bieler, Andreas and Ingemar Lindberg (eds.) (2010) Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity. London: Routledge.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580830/

Africa's Informal Workers

Lindell, Ilda (ed.) (2010) Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa. Zed Books and The Nordic Africa Institute, London/Uppsala.

http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4369

Learning from the Ground UP

Choudry , Aziz and Kapoor, Dip (Eds) (2010). Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production New York: Palgrave Macmillan.