Austerity and Working-Class Resistance

Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times

Adam Fishwick, Heather Connolly

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216220152
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.

Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these 'hard times'. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.

The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Resisting and Surviving Organised Politics
• 2 Contesting Austerity in Low-Resistance Capitalist Contexts
• 3 Power of Labour and Logistics
• 4 Resistance and Revolution
• 5 From Social Movement to Labour Protests
• 6 Beyond Water, Beyond Folk Politics?
• 7 Worker Recuperated Enterprises
• 8 E(a)ffective Control and Resistance in the Digitalised Workplace
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Contributors