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Contents
1 The future of the global working class: an introduction
2 The contested politics of gender and irregular employment: revitalizing the South Korean democratic labour movement
3 Globalization and the informalization of labour: the case of South Africa
4 Globalization and labour in India: emerging challenges and responses
5 How China's migrant labourers are becoming the new proletariat
6 The globalization of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work: challenges for and responses from Argentine unions
7 Neoliberal policies, labour market restructuring and social exclusion: Brazil's working-class response
8 The impact of globalization on trade unions: the situation in Japan
9 Challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the context of globalization, unemployment and the casualization of labour
10 German trade unions between neoliberal restructuring, social partnership and internationalism
11 Swedish unions and globalization: labour strategies in a changing global order
12 Building alliances between formal and informal workers: experiences from Africa
13 European integration: a strategic level for trade union resistance to neoliberal restructuring and for the promotion of political alternatives?
14 A trade union internationalism for the 21st century: meeting the challenges from above, below and beyond
15 What future strategy for the global working class? The need for a new historical subject
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Index