Rising from the ashes?: labor in the age of global capitalism

Big changes in the global economy and world politics have put new questions on the table for labor movements around the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizing and government cutbacks? Can unions revive their ranks and reignite the public imagination? Is labor rising from the ashes? Rising from the Ashes? sets these crucial questions in global context, connecting and contrasting new developments in the United States to recent trends abroadfrom Mexico to Asia, from Canada to Eastern Europe. Rising from the Ashes, takes on the hottest issues being debated by scholars and labor activists, including the changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labor militancy, and the strategic options available to working people in an age of global capitalism. Contributors include union leaders as well as movement builders outside the mainstream, and scholars as well as activists. Without parallel in its international coverage and analytic sophistication, Rising from the Ashes, provides a fresh, radical assessment of labor today. http://monthlyreview.org/rising.htm