Rising from the ashes?
Subtitle: labor in the age of global capitalism
By: edited by Ellen Meiksens Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates.
Contributors: Wood, Ellen Meiksins.; Meiksins, Peter, 1953-; Yates, Michael, 1946-
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Labor movement; Capitalism; International trade
Description: New questions have jumped to the forefront for labor movements all over the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizings 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 abroad - from Mexico to Asia, and from Canada to Eastern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.