The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces.

Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these hard times. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living.

The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.

Adam Fishwick is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University.

Heather Connolly is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Business at the University of Leicester.

Introduction: Working-Class Resistance in Hard Times, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly

Resisting and Surviving Organised Politics: The Case of the London Housing Movement, Lisa Mckenzie

Contesting Austerity in Low Resistance Capitalist Contexts, Saori Shibata and David Bailey

Power of Labour and Logistics: Immigrant Struggles in Italys Logistics Industry, Rossana Cillo and Lucia Pradella

Resistance and Revolution: Working-Class Intransigence, The Libertarian Tradition, and the Catalan Crisis, Stuart Price

From Social Movement to Labour Protests: The Case of the Sans Papiers in France, Heather Connolly and Sylvie Contrepois

Beyond Water, Beyond Folk Politics? Lessons from Greece for an Irish Socialist Governmentality, Nicholas Kiersey

Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Confronting the Return of Austerity in Argentina? Adam Fishwick

E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised Workplace, Phoebe Moore

Conclusion: Towards Connecting the Diversity of Working-Class Resistance, Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly

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