Peasants and Proletarians

The Struggles of Third World Workers
Herausgeber: Cohen, Robin; Brazier, Phyllis; Gutkind, Peter C W

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers' struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781032566764
• ISBN-10: 1032566760
• Artikelnr.: 68100109

Autorenporträt

Robin Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford. For the first decade of his academic career, he worked on comparative labour issues. His books included Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1974) and the co-edited collections The development of an African working class (1975), International Labour and the Third World (1987), African Labor History (1978) and the current title, Peasants and Proletarians. He subsequently wrote on the themes of migration, globalization and diasporas. His best-known work is Global diasporas: An introduction (3rd edition, 2022). Peter Gutkind was a distinguished social anthropologist (and a noted pioneer in the field of urban anthropology) who was associated with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Warwick from 1986 until his death in 2001. He was Professor of Anthropology at McGill University for the majority of his career and President of the African Studies Association in the USA. Phyllis Brazier completed an MA at Warwick University and worked in the voluntary sector, NHS and education. She continues to be active in the community against racism and in support of human rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Early Forms of Resistance 1. The Origins of the Chilean Labor
Movement Alan Angell 2. The May Thirtieth Movement in Shanghai Jean
Chesneaux 3. Historical Background and Beginnings of the Mexican Labor
Movement Before The Revolution of 1910 M. R. Clark 5. The Lagos Strike of
1897: An Exploration in Nigerian Labor History A. G. Hopkins 6. Worker
Consciousness in Black Miners: South Rhodesia, 1900-1920 Charles van
Onselen Part 2: Workers on the Land 7. Rural Women's Subsistence Production
in the Capitalist Periphery Carmen Diana Deere 8. From Peasants to Miners:
The Background to Strikes in the Mines of Peru Josh DeWind 9. The Rural
Proletariat and the Problem of the Rural Proletarian Consciousness Sidney
W. Mintz 10. The Politics of Protest in Jamaica, 1938: Some Problems of
Analysis and Conceptualization K. W. J. Post Part 3: Strategies of
Working-Class Action 11. Workers and Managers in Algeria Ian Clegg 12. The
Political Impact of Strikes and Disorder in Ceylon Robert N. Kearney 13.
The Alliance of Peasants and Workers: Some Problems Concerning the
Articulation of Classes (Algeria and China). K. W. J. Post 14. Politics and
Organized Labor in India E. A. Ramaswamy Part 4: Migrant Workers and
Advanced Capitalism 15. Prisoners in Exile: Senegalese Workers in France
Adrian Adams 16. Colonial Labor and Theories of Inequality: The Case of
International Harvester Mario Barrera 17. Immigrant Workers and Class
Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience Manuel
Castells 19. Contract Labor in U.S. Agriculture: The West Indian Cane
Cutters in Florida Josh DeWind, Tom Seidl, and Janet Shenk Part 5:
Contemporary Struggles 20. The Durban Strikes: South Africa 1973 Institute
for Industrial Education 21. Industrial Protest in Nigeria Adrian Peace
22. Class Consciousness Among Working-Class Women in Latin America: A Case
Study in Puerto Rico Helen Icken Safa 22. Trade-Union Action and Political
Behavior of the Chilean Miners of Chuquicamata Francisco S. Zapata.