Global goods and the infrastructure of desire -- The spatial politics of Southern California's logistics regime -- Labor and the circuits of capital -- Cyborg labor and the global logistics matrix -- Contesting contingency -- Mapping the American dream -- Land, capital, and race -- Latinx frontiers

"The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from...

Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth? provides a fresh account of the International Working Men?s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the...

Introduction: the new upsurge of strikes in the early 21st century : tendencies, challenges and limits / Jörg Nowak, Peter Birke and Madhumita Dutta -- Labour strikes in post-authoritarian Indonesia, 1998-2013 / Fahmi Panimbang and Abu Mufakhir -- Space and strike diffusion in a decentralized...

Introduction : an inquiry into labor in Israel in the 21st century -- Neoliberalism, neocorporatism and worker representation -- The rise of labor activism -- The old structures : corrupt, fossilized, irrelevant? -- Taking the struggle beyond the workplace -- Renegotiating the role of the...

Introduction -- A practical demonstration in democracy: the IWO -- A plan for plenty: the IWO tames capitalism -- We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: race, civil rights and the IWO -- A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention: interracial fun --...

Introduction. Situating Walmart in a global context : workplace cultures, industrial relations and supply chains / Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher -- Wal-mart in Brazil : from global diffusion to national institutional embeddedness? / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B....

Introduction / Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt -- Section 1. The early republic and the Old South -- Origins of the Charleston Mechanic Society: white labor activism and slave competition in Charleston, South Carolina in the early national era / Thomas Brown -- "Vagrant negroes": the...

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Reconsidering the collective impulse and the colonial context -- Law, the courts and inequality at work -- Overview of worker organisation, 1788-1850 -- Analysing the components of organisation -- Organisation in transport and maritime activities -- Organisation in the rural and extractives...

Introduction -- Interdisciplinarity: on the importance of law, communication studies and anthropology in the present work -- (I)mmigrant workers and the union movement: legal and historical -- Global precarity -- Casework as an organizing tactic -- Campaigns and strategies in the United States...

Prologue : getting to Immokalee -- To beat one of us is to beat us all! -- Bang your head against the wall long enough, and you have to admit it starts to hurt -- Campaigning for fair food -- Has anyone talked with these guys? -- Eyes wide open -- Forging the path by walking it -- "Value" can...

The rise of China, and of labor protest, from 1978 to 2010 -- Who speaks for China's workers? : an introduction to the ACFTU and the labor NGOs -- How did the New Deal resolve the American "labor question"? : bringing a comparative lens in focus -- Can China regulate its way out of labor unrest?...

Port workers in Colombia : reinstatement as formal workers / Daniel Hawkins -- Retail and hospitality workers in South Africa : organized by trade union of formal workers to demand equal pay and benefits / Sahra Ryklief -- Haitian migrant workers in Dominican Republic : organized by trade union...

"Oppression," Maraiti and farm worker livelihoods : shifting grounds in the 1990s -- The traction of rights, the art of politics : the labor "war" at Upfumi -- The drama of politics : dissension, suffering, and violence -- Politics and precarious livelihoods during the time of Jambanja --...

Introduction: "Got a match?" -- "Our lives, our thoughts and our allegiance" : new immigrants in 1914 -- "A war of coal and iron" : 1914-1917 -- Securing "the industrial forts of America" : 1917-1918 -- "The revolt of the rank-and-file" : 1919 -- A double envelopment of reaction : 1920-1924 --...

"Der vorliegende Band, herausgegeben von Frank-Lothar Kroll, vereinigt Abhandlungen des Chemnitzer Historikers Rudolf Boch zur deutschen Industrialisierung: Aufsätze zu den handwerklichen Ursprüngen der Arbeiterbewegung, aber auch ein Resümee zur Transformation dieser Bewegung nach 1890. Die...

The street labor movement / Kathleen Dunn -- Day labor agencies and the logic and landscape of neoliberal poverty management / Gretchen Purser -- Economic development for whom? : retail, neoliberal urbanism, and the "Fight for 15" / Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis -- Context, coalitions, and...

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The dilemma of the narrow door -- Millions go knocking -- Employers close the door -- Signing up in the shipyard -- Out of the Southern frying pan, into the global fire -- Resistance in retail: organizing Woodward & Lothrop -- 9 to 5: framing a new doorway

Beating the bully -- Wal-Mart in Chile -- Leveraging power : two models of successful unionism -- Strategic democracy : Wal-Mart's warehouse workers -- The flexible militancy of Walmart retail workers -- Looking back and going forward